Over Here - Taylor, Jane
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'It's coming up to twenty-four hours since the boy stepped down from the big passenger liner - it must be, he reckons foggily - because morning has come around once more with the awful irrevocability of time destined to lead nowhere in this worrying new situation. His temporary minder on board - last spotted heading for the bar some while before the lumbering process of docking got underway - seems to have vanished for good. Where does that leave him now? All on his own in a new country: that's where it leaves him. He is just nine years old.' An eloquently written novel tracing the social…mehr

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'It's coming up to twenty-four hours since the boy stepped down from the big passenger liner - it must be, he reckons foggily - because morning has come around once more with the awful irrevocability of time destined to lead nowhere in this worrying new situation. His temporary minder on board - last spotted heading for the bar some while before the lumbering process of docking got underway - seems to have vanished for good. Where does that leave him now? All on his own in a new country: that's where it leaves him. He is just nine years old.' An eloquently written novel tracing the social transformations of a century where possibilities were opened up by two world wars that saw millions of men move around the world to fight, and mass migration to the new worlds of Canada and Australia by tens of thousands of people looking for a better life. Through the eyes of three generations of women, the tragic life story of the nine year old boy on Liverpool docks is brought to life in saddeningly evocative prose.
Autorenporträt
I experienced my first severe back pain when I was 19 years old and in college. It took a whole year to try to fix it... I finally went to Duke Hospital for a spinal fusion of the L5-S1. The good news is that the fusion worked. It relieved my pain, and after recuperating for about five months, I went back to college. As time went on, I learned to keep my weight down and to exercise consistently to keep my back happy. Decades later, I experienced a muscle spasm in my back that didn't release for months. Oh, no... here we go again! This time, there was no surgical means of correction. So, I've explored a bunch of alternatives, and a combination of treatments are keeping me active. I've discovered that I understand people in pain in a way that I never did before. A person who hasn't experienced pain cannot truly empathize. I graduated from Duke University, and as a lifelong learner I received a Master's Degree from Carolina Evangelical Divinity School.