Why a Booktrail?
1904: From New Jersey to Wales….
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Why a Booktrail?
1904: From New Jersey to Wales….
What you need to know before your trail
Winter, 1904, and feisty twenty-one-year old Ellen has been summoned back from her new life in Hoboken, New Jersey, to the family farm on windswept Gower, in a last bid to prevent the impending death of her alcoholic father.
On her return, she finds the family in disarray. Ailing William is gambling away large swathes of Thomas land; frustrated Eleanor is mourning the husband she once knew; and Ellen s younger twin brothers face difficult choices.
Ellen, tasked with putting her family s lives in order, finds herself battling one impossible decision after another. Resourceful, passionate, and forthright, can she remain in Gower, where being female still brings with it so many limitations? Can she endure being so close to her lost love? Will she choose home and duty, or excitement and opportunity across the Atlantic?
Travel Guide
Wales
This is a book which evokes the farming community in Gower, South Wales over 100 years ago. In 1956, the majority of Gower became the first area in the United Kingdom to be designated an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty
Describing the pregnant sheep: ‘heavy in the girth, shit-splattered, worm-ridden and most limping with foot rot and oozing with mange.’
BookTrail Boarding Pass: Advent
Destination/location: Wales Author/guide: Jane Fraser Departure Time: 1904
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