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Автор: Lynne Golding
Издательство: Ingram
Серия: Beneath The Alders
Жанр произведения: Историческая литература
Год издания: 0
isbn: 9781988279848
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      PRAISE FOR THE INNOCENT

      “Lynne Golding has opened a magical door to the past and ushered us into Edwardian Brampton to marvel at a simpler time… [The Innocent] will make you laugh and weep and wonder, and be fondly remembered long after the final pages are read.”

      —Cheryl Cooper, author of the Seasons of War series

      “Lynne Golding knows how to tell a story. With yarns she gathered at her great-aunt’s knee, she has woven a compelling story that harkens back to a time of pre-war innocence in a town I’ve always been proud to call my own.”

      —Former Premier the Honorable William G. Davis

      “It’s easy to forget that everything about the roads we drive, the hydro and water to our homes, the schools and health care we need, comes from the cradle of community. This series is a journey back in time to what was needed for building a future that cares for many thousands for decades to come. Through a fascinating family, Lynne Golding’s novels lead us into the past in a whimsical way that can’t help but connect to our own ambitions.”

      —Lorna Dueck, CEO, Crossroads Global Media Group

      “A lovingly crafted work, so engaging, pulsing with life, sensitive to the foibles of family relationships. I love the wry humour, gentle handling of tragedy, of constrained family competition, of church, and of politics. The Innocent is a wonderful study of social relationships in a small community. I’m much touched by the chapter on starting school, and the quiet, non critical intervention of Uncle James to still the child’s fears when passing the Iron Works Repair Shop. It would rival any of James Rainey’s small town tales.”

      —Ruth Redelmeier, Ontario Historian

       The Beleaguered

      Copyright 2019 by Lynne Golding

      ISBN: 978-1-988279-84-8

      All rights reserved

      Editor: Allister Thompson

      Published in Stratford, Canada, by Blue Moon Publishers.

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      This book is a work of fiction. The characters, incidents, and dialogue are drawn from the author’s imagination and are not to be construed as real. Any resemblance to actual events or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.

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      Beneath the Alders

      THE BELEAGUERED

      Lynne Golding

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       To Jessie Roberts Current,a dear friend to so many

      CONTENTS

       Acknowledgements

       Prologue

       Chapter 1 – Declaration of Hostilities

       Chapter 2 – The First Contingent

       Chapter 3 – Snell’s Lake

       Chapter 4 – The Knitting Club

       Chapter 5 – More Usual Than Usual

       Chapter 6 – The Hockey Game

       Chapter 7 – The Straussenhoffers

       Chapter 8 – Success

       Chapter 9 – Jim’s Graduation

       Chapter 10 – Paulette

       Chapter 11 – The Cabal

       Chapter 12 – The Internees

       Chapter 13 – The Aeroplanist

       Chapter 14 – The Invalid

       Chapter 15 – The Farmettes

       Chapter 16 – Armistice

       A Preview of Book Three, The Mending

       Author’s Note

       About Lynne Golding

       Book Club Guide

      ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

      With thanks to my first readers, my mother-in-law Carol Clement and my late father-in-law John Clement, for their diligence and enthusiasm for every chapter dispensed; my good friend Candace Thompson for her marginal happy and sad faces letting me know that the parts intended to be humorous or sad hit their mark; my father, Douglas Golding, and his oldest friend, John McDermid, for their many helpful reflections about Brampton in years past.

      With gratitude to the second-floor librarians at the Brampton Four Corners Library who helped me manage reels and reels of microfiche; to the thorough investigative work of Samantha Thompson and her team at the Peel Archives; to the fabulous team at Blue Moon Publishers: Heidi Sander, Talia Crockett, Jamie Arts, and Allister Thompson; to my amazingly talented website and graphic designer, Kevin Patterson; my dear friend and diligent researcher, Colleen Mahoney; and my dear friend Meghan Robertson for her encouragement and support, the provision of facts about certain Winnipeg connections and the supply of her lovely mother-in-law, Erica Rueter, for her knowledge of many things German and Austrian.

      With heartfelt thanks to my husband, Tony Clement, who encouraged me year after year to continue the project and to my children Alex, Maxine, and Elexa, who endured countless retellings of “interesting” tidbits I came