The Broken Bough

The Broken Bough #1

by Nicola Thorne

In the early 1900s beautiful Cathy Read was widowed. Since then she has struggled to make ends meet and to feed and clothe her three young daughters, and the outbreak of war in 1914 brings new stresses to the family. But Cathy's daughters have their whole lives ahead of them -- in a very different world from that which existed before the war.

224 pages, Hardcover

First published May 1, 2001

About the author

Nicola Thorne (real name: Rosemary Ellerbeck) was born in Cape Town, South Africa. Her father was English and her mother a New Sealander, and she was brought up and educated in England. She graduated in Sociology at the London School of Economics, but always wanted to pursue a literary career and worked as a reader and editor while writing her first novels. In 1975 she left publishing to write full and and has now written a number of successful novels under the pseudonym Nicola Thorne. She lives in St. John's Wood, London.

Reviews

[June Churchill · Rating 4 out of 5]

An enjoyable read, shall look for more by the same author