The War Before Mine Caroline Ross All books by Caroline Ross
£6.99 BUY THIS BOOK 2006 and Alex Mullen is coming to terms with a terrible past. Meeting up with Frankie, who shared the bad times, exposes one of Australia's cruellest secrets.
Falmouth,1942 and commando Philip Seymour sails for France. Left on the quayside is Rosie, a half-Romany girl looking for something more from life than collecting old clothes to sell on for pennies.
Philip, who turned down a commission on principle, is pal Tucker – haunted by dreams of strange beasts hanging in his father's cold store, and Anderson – a mean spirited wide-boy who Philip doesn't quite trust, are about to make history in the audacious raid on the docks of St Nazaire.
What befalls the commandos shapes the lives of Rosie, Alex and Philip in ways none of them could have imagined...
"Ross proves herself a versatile and senstive chronicler of the world at war and a bright new star of Welsh writing." Sunday Telegraph
"complex and engaging" Western Mail
"Moving and involving. As it shifts from delicate love story to scenes of gunfire and battle, the pace never relents, its characters both appeal and convince" James Friel
"More than a war story, more than a love story... A slice of living history." Philip Gross.
ISBN: 9781870206976 Language: English Category: Fiction Novels Historical First published by Honno in : October 2008
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