Pat Kelly

Hedge of Thorns (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

The author, who hails from Scotland, spent many hours listening to her mother-in-law recount, in vivid detail, memories of her childhood days in the tiny village of Patrick, in the Isle of Man, during the First World War. As Lou talked, the author realised she was listening to history, a lot of which no one else could tell, and that if Lou were to die, all that history would be lost forever. So she wrote it all down and turned it into Hedge of Thorns. In those days the village was dwarfed by the huge internment camp at Knockaloe, created for the accommodation of thousands of men classed as enemy aliens. Men whose only crimes were to have German, Austrian or Turkish origins. Hedge of Thorns is a true account of the impact that the Great War and the monster of Knockaloe camp had on the lives of a Manx family which still followed the traditional crofting way of life. It is a most moving and memorable story of the stresses and strains which shattered the peaceful existence of a family whose loved ones were caught up in the emergencies of war. Throughout Europe, during those dreadful war-torn years, millions of families were suffering similar deprivation, fear, loss and heartbreak. Millions died in most dreadful ways and millions more eventually returned home crippled in either body or mind. Or both! It was to be the war to end all wars, for no one could imagine such stupidity happening again but-!

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Silverbird Publishing
• Seitenzahl: 308
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. September 2019
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780648681755
• Artikelnr.: 57739705

Autorenporträt

The author was born in Scotland a year before World War II started, but swears she didn't cause it ... In January 1968 she arrived in Australia as a 'Ten Pound Tourist' with her, then, husband and four children. After the breakup of her marriage after twenty-five years the author was contacted by a man named Mike Kelly, whom she had known in her teens and had had no contact with for nearly thirty years. Mike's marriage having broken up around the same time as the author's. On learning she was 'on the loose', he obtained her phone number by courtesy of his mother - International telephone enquiries - and the author's mother, so rang to see if she was okay. One thing led to another, they were married in 1988 and returned to the Isle of Man to start a new life. On Mike's retirement, five years later, they followed the summers and spent half their lives in Australia and the other half in the Isle of Man. In their months on the island each year, they ran a daffodil and plant nursery and were well known throughout the island for their roadside stall, where they sold their daffodils and plants. As age caught up with them, they realised it was time to settle somewhere permanently. Being the warmer country, Australia won, and they moved there in 2014, to live in a retirement village in Lakes Entrance - one of the prettiest spots in Australia. This, they both feel, will suit them until they climb in their boxes (but not for a long time yet) and move on to higher places.