“Spanning two generations, moving back and forth from London to America, with flashbacks to war-torn Paris in 1940, a story that will knock your emotional socks off! This is a real page-turner” — IRISH NEWS
From the summer of 1963 filled with the glorious love songs and various world events of the period – to the world of London publishing in 1990s – an unforgettable love story, darkened at its edges by the determination of one unique and eautiful woman who always must have her way.
MARC ― a young American soldier on holiday in London, where he meets and unexpectedly falls in love with Marian, an English waitress.
MARIAN ― innocent and unworldly, eighteen years old, and only two years out of the closed Barnardo’s Orphanage where she grew up, is a mystery to her employer, Chef, who not only loves her like a daughter, but constantly wonders at her secrets. When she meets Marc and their attraction is mutual and instant, Marian believes that she has found the perfect love, mending what is broken inside her – unaware that back in America Marc faces complications which threaten to overwhelm him – because Marian does not know about Jacqueline Castineau.
JACQUELINE ― French, rich, and stunning, with beautiful dark eyes – still haunted by flashbacks to her time as a 16-year-old girl in the French Resistance, Jacqueline is still nevertheless totally fearless. Even now, all of adversaries are not only defeated, but completely destroyed in one way or another. She tolerates no obstacles to her wishes — until she meets Phil, a foreign relation, who takes her breath away.
PHIL — has come a long way to find Jacqueline. She has a long-standing debt to pay, and he has come to collect.
“Set primarily in London, Paris, and Massachusetts, a story of tender love and tender youth, which suddenly changes gear and takes a startling and thrilling change of direction.
“Great touching story! — All I can say is you better have a box of tissues in close proximity while reading this book. It will tear at your heart strings over and over again, and it’s impossible to put down! Gretta Curran Browne is one of my favorite authors. Her writing has been consistently good and always keeps me reading non-stop. Never melodramatic, just real and the characters are very human as in this particular book. The beauty of the love story and the deep sadness evoked by circumstances beyond control of the couple is brilliantly written. Needless to add, I loved this book. This is my second time!” — WOODSEVER Amazon Top Contributor: Fiction Books