Sometimes I find a book that captures my attention so completely, that sets my heart racing, and beckons me to return to its pages every spare minute just to find out what will happen to my favorite characters.
This is the first book I have read by the author who I can heartily recommend. The other people such as the Sprague family add to the story as they attempt to be a family for the young Annie. The two main protagonists face many obstacles in the way and my emotions were taken from one extreme to the other right until the end.
The horrors of the scenes experienced in military hospitals in France are portrayed realistically but not voyeuristically. I really enjoyed this amazing and moving book which features God in a positive and realistic way not often seen in literature. The story then develops into WWI where each character is forced to confront what really matters to them in an ever changing world. When the ship goes down their lives are changed forever in ways unimaginable. Owen is going to America to join his uncle and aunt and make enough to bring over his sisiter Annie who is controlled by her aunt Eleanor. Michael runs away from his abusive uncle and stows away on Titanic where his friendship with gardener Owen develops. Read moreĪs I have always been fascinated with the story ot the first fateful voyage of Titanic and we are in the midst of events marking 100 years since the first World War this book seemed the perfect story for me and it didn't disappoint. When Annie’s letters mysteriously stop, Michael risks everything to fulfill his promise-and find the woman he’s grown to love-before she’s lost forever. Just as Michael saves enough money to bring Annie to America, WWI erupts in Europe. In time, as Annie begins to lay aside her anger that Michael lived when Owen did not, a tentative friendship takes root and blossoms into something neither expected. As Annie struggles to navigate life without Owen, Michael reaches out to her through letters.
She only knows that her brother is gone-like their mother and father-and the grief is enough to swallow her whole. Determined to carry out his promise to care for Owen’s relatives in America and his younger sister, Annie, in England, Michael works hard to strengthen the family’s New Jersey garden and landscaping business.Īnnie Allen doesn’t care what Michael promised Owen.
Michael Dunnagan was never supposed to sail on the Titanic, nor would he have survived if not for the courage of Owen Allen.
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