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| Title | : | Touch the Silence (Harvey Family Saga #1) |
| Author | : | Gloria Cook |
| Book Format | : | Hardcover |
| Book Edition | : | First Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 320 pages |
| Published | : | May 1st 2003 by Severn House Publishers (first published March 2003) |
| Categories | : | Historical. Historical Fiction. War. World War I |
Gloria Cook
Hardcover | Pages: 320 pages Rating: 4.05 | 260 Users | 18 Reviews
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The first in a new family saga from a well-loved Cornish author It is 1917, and the First World War is casting its dark shadow over the lives of the Harvey family of Ford Farm. One brother has been killed already, and Tristam is at the Front. Though newly engaged to pretty dairy-maid Emilia Rowse, a friend since childhood, younger brother Ben is desperate to be called to serve his country. But a horrific eye-injury causes him to be declared unfit, a blow from which young Ben will never recover. Tensions mount as he is forced to remain at the farm with his elder brother Alec, a man with closely-guarded secrets of his own...
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| Original Title: | Touch the Silence |
| ISBN: | 0727858947 (ISBN13: 9780727858948) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Series: | Harvey Family Saga #1 |
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Ratings: 4.05 From 260 Users | 18 ReviewsWrite Up Epithetical Books Touch the Silence (Harvey Family Saga #1)
Book one of the Harvey Family Saga sets the scene to this series well. Cornwall at the time of World War I and Emilia a farm hand is suffering rejection from one of the Harvey Brothers as he blames her and consequently pushes her away frustrated with now been declared unfit to serve his Country due to a horrific injury. Upset she turns to his brother and a drama unravels as they become a couple.With believable characters, guarded secrets, plenty of scandal and period detail this book was veryI'm not really one for historical sagas, but I am willing to give any book a go. I did read a complete saga by Annie Groves which I really enjoyed, so am not adverse to reading them! However, this one didn't really grab me. The story of the Harvey family and the surrounding characters was OK, the characters were well written and the facts surrounding the war and what was going on in England seemed accurate. I did find Emilia to be a little annoying though. I know she had difficult circumstances
Set in Cornwall during WW1, this enjoyable book centres on the three surviving Harvey brothers, Emilia who helps on their farm and in their farmhouse, her friend Honor, and Archie, a tramp with nightmare memories of the Battle of Jutland. It is a saga-style historical novel with plenty of family difficulties and emotional ups and downs, and, in the background, the slaughter of the Great War. I would have liked to see a bit more made of the Cornish setting - the novel could have been set in any
Thanks to NetGalley and to Canelo for an advance copy of Touch the Silence, by Gloria Cook.This book was first published by Severn House in 2003 and was republished in 2018. It's the first in the Harvey Family saga, of which there are currently six volumes.I found the book quite difficult to get into at first. There were a lot of characters to find out about and the first time "Lucy" was mentioned, I had no idea who she was. At one point I thought there might be two Lucys. However, once the book
I was a bit half and half on this one. It wasn't a bad story but it wasn't particularly entertaining either.
I enjoyed reading this WW1 saga set in rural Cornwall, although I found it a little slow moving at times.This is a favourite genre fo me, so I am looking forward to reading the continuing stories of the Harvey family.
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