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1770s: A journey back to the time of the Revolutionary War In Canada and America from the viewpoints of Lucy and John – and loyalists who were caught up in the American revolutionary war.
The Loyalist’s Wife (The Loyalist Trilogy 1)
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John joins the British sympathizers Butler’s Rangers and has to leave Lucy while fighting against the revolutionaries.
While he is away, Lucy must fight and survive. All she wanted was to live with John and lead a peaceful life. John felt he had to fight and the war affected them both in ways they could not have foreseen.
Written from both Lucy and John’s point of view, we experience two vivid viewpoints on the reality and brutality of war – how it shapes the men who fight it, and the women who they leave behind.
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The book moves from two places of action – the home where Lucy, the Loyalist’s Wife of the book, is left behind to have and look after the baby whilst her husband goes to fight. This was an interesting way to split the action as we get not only the husband’s point of view as being at the heart of the action but that of the wife.
This book may have the colonial wars and struggles as the backdrop but it’s exciting to ‘be right there at the heart of the action’. The people and the human side of the story is brought out so strongly and passionately in Elaine’s book.
You will discover a lot of the human experience of war in this book. Some parts were gruesome, some were uplifting, whilst all were realistic and puts you right at the heart of the people living their day to day lives in such turbulent times.
Booktrailer Review
Susan @thebooktrailer
This is certainly a book built with passion and feeling. I can only imagine the challenge of the research involved due to the detail involved.
Even though the story is a hard one to read at times, I felt such sadness and concern, especially for Lucy. When you realise Lucy and indeed her husband John are just one couple caught up in the historical battles, it brings home to you the raw honesty this book represents and the wide reaching effects of years of fighting and the human reality of just getting through every day.
Fair to say that going to Niagara on the Lake started a little seed of interest that brought me to this book and now I can say I understand what I saw all those years ago. This is the real story of the fighting and the battles of that time. While I might not understand all the politics, I understood the raw anguish and emotions of the people caught up in it all. And my heart went out to them.
Writing that produces raw emotions is definitely a story worth reading.
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