The Punishing Journey of Arthur Delan..., Bob Kroll
The Punishing Journey of Arthur Delan..., Bob Kroll
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The Punishing Journey of Arthur Delaney
A Novel

Author: Bob Kroll

Narrator: Blair Williams

Unabridged: 6 hr 22 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: ECW Press

Published: 06/30/2022

Synopsis

For readers of Paulette Jiles and Gil Adamson, a 19th-century tale of a father’s greatest regret and path to redemption Devastated at his wife’s death and stricken at raising two girls and a boy on his own, Arthur Delaney places his children in a Halifax orphanage and runs off to join the Union Army in the American Civil War. The trauma of battle and three years in a disease-ridden prisoner-of-war prison changes his perspective on life and family. After the war, Delaney odd-jobs his way up the American east coast and catches a schooner to Halifax. There he discovers the orphanage has relocated to a farm in rural Nova Scotia. His children are not there. They and others had been sold and resold as farm workers and house servants through the Maritime provinces, as well as Quebec and Ontario. Their whereabouts is unknown. Arthur Delaney sets out on a punishing 20-year journey across Canada to find them. This is a heartbreaking, beautifully told story of a father’s attempt to reconnect with his children

Reviews

Goodreads review by Karren on May 09, 2022

Arthur Delaney decides to place his three children Jimmy, Robina and Annie in the Children’s Refuge and Aid home in Halifax after his wife passes away. Arthur joins the Union Army, he’s taken prisoner and spends three years in a Confederate prisoner of war camp. After having time to reflect on the ch......more

Goodreads review by Shirin on July 24, 2022

It’s a promise Arthur Delaney made, he made his wife, Mary, a promise before she died to protect their children, and this book is his punishing journey! “If we don’t blame God, then who do we blame?” He failed to keep his promise, although I think he wanted to break it! No, I haven't stone heart but f......more

Goodreads review by Laurie House on December 20, 2023

A heartbreaking story of poor choices.......more

Goodreads review by Janalyn, the blind reviewer on July 11, 2022

When Arthur Delaney loses his wife and then decides to leave his children in a Canadian children home to fight for the union in the Civil War he always thought he would go back and get them. Unfortunately when he returns the home is empty and his kids have been sold into servitude. When he returns a......more

Goodreads review by Peter on February 15, 2022

All I wish for is a good story well-told and The Punishing Journey of Arthur Delaney by Bob Kroll delivered that magnificently. Arthur Delaney didn’t think he was able to raise his three children after his wife died so he allowed himself to succumb to religious/righteous pleas to fight for the Union......more

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