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The Narrow Gate
“War messes with us; makes us do things we wouldn’t normally contemplate.”
As war encroaches on the idyllic young life of Ali Conroy in the lush and undulating countryside of Northern England, she and her childhood love are swept to opposite ends of the earth – to the unrelenting and bloody battlefields of World War Two and the barren and windblown plains of North East Montana.
Based on a true story from the years surrounding one of our most defining and cataclysmic conflicts, The Narrow Gate tugs at the threads that tie us to our home and our first love.
As war encroaches on the idyllic young life of Ali Conroy in the lush and undulating countryside of Northern England, she and her childhood love are swept to opposite ends of the earth – to the unrelenting and bloody battlefields of World War Two and the barren and windblown plains of North East Montana.
Based on a true story from the years surrounding one of our most defining and cataclysmic conflicts, The Narrow Gate tugs at the threads that tie us to our home and our first love.
290 pages, Paperback
Published April 29, 2022
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June 18, 2022
Based on a true story the narrator takes us on her extraordinary journey from rural England to the plains of Montana USA. She shares her hopes and ambitions for love and happiness which come to be thwarted. The awful events taking place in war torn Europe cause her to make decisions that take her to such a painful place from which she fears there is no escape and she has no-one to blame but herself.
September 4, 2022
A fascinating story based on a real life encounter with the heroine. Made me delectable on isolation, loneliness and love and how important family is. A well written book that keeps you turning the pages and reminds you how the choices we make in our younger years can have long lasting implications. Well worth reading.
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June 5, 2022This is a beautifully written, well researched book with a haunting story that lingers in your thoughts for sometime afterwards. I thoroughly enjoyed it.
May 23, 2022
Just finished the Narrow Gate . I think it’s s wonderful book written by a writer I’ve never read before . The evocation of a sense of place is so plausible you almost feel you were there in those troubled wartime years in England.
The action centres on Hebden bridge in Yorkshire, in Manchester and a farmstead in Montana in the US . The book is basically about a tortured love triangle with a beautiful English girl an American GI and an English soldier .
The driving narrative focuses mainly on Alices despair at making the wrong choice in love but the book also has a sub -plot which gives it an elegiac beauty as it comments on war and the sheer waste both in terms of lives lost and families ripped apart seen mainly through the eyes of Alices’ friends family and most forcefully her English lover trapped in the bloodbath of Monte Cassino in the Italian campaign in WW11. Like I said a wonderful book .
The action centres on Hebden bridge in Yorkshire, in Manchester and a farmstead in Montana in the US . The book is basically about a tortured love triangle with a beautiful English girl an American GI and an English soldier .
The driving narrative focuses mainly on Alices despair at making the wrong choice in love but the book also has a sub -plot which gives it an elegiac beauty as it comments on war and the sheer waste both in terms of lives lost and families ripped apart seen mainly through the eyes of Alices’ friends family and most forcefully her English lover trapped in the bloodbath of Monte Cassino in the Italian campaign in WW11. Like I said a wonderful book .
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