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Anna Hockley
Eden Christian Books Specialist
Sweeping and insightful, Katharine Swartz's new novel for lovers of moving fiction is a story of families, change, and creating a new life. It is a captivating read, and depicts the trials of creating a new home, a new family, and of starting again. It is a read to show you anew the reasons we are all in need of other, of family, and of a place to call home.
The stories of two women, 150 years apart, both struggling with creating a new family, are woven together into a powerful tapestry of the complex relationships that are found in the start of something new. These two new beginnings weave in and out of each other as the challenges of second changes, of starting a new family, are laid bare.
Ellen Tyson is in unfamiliar territory. Her comfortable village life with her husband Alex is turned upside down then, on her doorstep, arrives Annabelle. The teenaged daughter from Alex's previous marriage, Annabelle is foul tempered, moody, and equally unhappy at this new situation as Ellen. Annabelle never asked for a new mother, and Ellen a new daughter: but now they both must learn to create a new family, along with Alex and Ellen's own child. This is a mess.
Just as this new family are finding their own new shape, so is their home. Renovations to the house make this change even more tumultuous, but hidden amongst the floorboards is something that will change the lives of this family forever.
The death certificate of one Sarah Mills, who died over 150 years ago.
Orphaned, and with only her mute sister for family, Sarah is desperate for a home. So desperate that she accepts a home at the cost of marrying her deceased father's friend, whose abuse and vile rage causes the women of the house to find solace in each other. No only Sarah and her sister, but also Sarah's step-daughter who is utterly rejected by her father after being found to have been 'disgraced'.
These two stories of families that are forged in hardship. These a second changes, new beginnings, and show the pain and love that we find in each other.
The Second Bride is imaginative, engaging, and is perfect for anyone who has felt the hardships that come with a new family.
Author
Katharine Swartz
Book Format
Paperback
Publisher
Lion Fiction
Published
February 2017
Weight
227g
Page Count
336
Dimensions
12.7 x 19.6 x 2.3 cm
ISBN
9781782642121
ISBN-10
1782642129
Eden Code
4434444
When Annabelle moves in, Ellen Tyson's idyllic village life is derailed.
Annabelle is her husband Alex's teenage daughter from his first marriage. Seventeen years old, surly and defiant, Annabelle has no interest in being part of her father's second family.
When a death certificate from the 1870s, hidden beneath the floorboards of their attic, is discovered during a renovation, Ellen tries to use it as a way to get closer to Annabelle. But as both women learn about Sarah Mills who died in 1872, they find the past reflected in their own lives in strange and startling ways.
A dual narrative between present and the 1860s, The Second Bride is a tense and beautifully woven story focusing on the complexity of family relationships and the hope of redemption.
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