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Gloria Cook

Set during WWI, a “compelling and dramatic story about the crumbling British upper class launches what should prove to be a fascinating family saga” (Booklist).
 
 1917. The First World War casts its shadow over the Harvey family of Ford Farm. One brother has already been killed, and Tristan now serves at the Front.

 Though newly engaged to pretty Emilia Rowse—a friend since childhood—younger brother Ben is desperate to serve his country. But a horrific injury causes him to be declared unfit, and Emilia's life becomes ever more difficult. Tensions mount on the family farm. Everyone, it seems, has closely guarded secrets . . . Can Emilia find happiness?

 Filled with a rich cast of unforgettable characters and packed with period detail, Touch the Silence is the brilliant first novel in the Harvey Family sagas.

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The Harvey Family Sagas

Touch the Silence

This WWII historical saga “brings to life an all-too-human family as it changes during war, making this a must-read for all fans of this fine series” (Booklist).

 Tragedy and passion threaten to overwhelm the Harvey Family once again
 
 1944: War lashes the Harvey family. Emilia, now happily married to Perry Bosweld and expecting his child, worries about her son Will in the RAF, while Ben Harvey is horrified when he's suddenly faced with the daughter he’d turned his back on.
 
 When Emilia and Ben hurl painful truths at each other, Ben takes it badly, and disappears as a Special Operative Executive behind enemy lines in France. As the war puts lives in danger, secrets from the past are revealed.
 
 But, as ever, new arrivals to Cornwall and fresh passions act as unpredictable catalysts in the family’s chemistry . . .
 
Never Just a Memory is the fourth novel in the engrossing Harvey Family Saga series.

Never Just a Memory

An “Edwardian soap opera” of divided family loyalties that “most will enjoy, especially those who have been following the Harvey family” saga (Booklist).
 
 The Great War is over, and the Harvey family of Ford Farm are slowly picking up the pieces. But Alec and Emilia’s newly-wedded bliss is shattered when their third child is born with a life-threatening disease, a fate which Alec finds particularly hard to accept.
 
 Alec’s relationships with his two brothers, Ben and Tristram, are strained by their differing loyalties and ambitions for the farm, and Emilia is torn reluctantly between them . . .

 The second of the gripping Harvey family sagas from the masterful Gloria Cook.

Moments of Time

“Tragedy and prosperity are two staples of life” in a post–WW1 Cornish village in this historical novel of a prominent family tested by crisis (Booklist).
 
 It is 1931 and Emilia and Alec’s marriage is under strain. Prone to melancholy, and injured in a storm, Alec’s misery draws him to seek solace with his brother’s new wife.
 
 But when Perry Bosweld, a disabled army surgeon, re-enters Emilia’s life, she finds that she is still attracted to him. Emilia’s first duty is to her husband and to the farm, and she will not allow herself to swerve from this path . . .
 
 The third captivating installment of the Harvey Family Saga.

From A Distance

“Fans will enjoy more time spent with . . . favorite personalities” as a family faces challenges and finds romance in a small Cornish village after WWII (Booklist).
 
 Can love heal the wounds of war?
 
 It is 1948, and the village of Hennaford is struggling to recover from the war—the Harvey family along with it.
 
 Johnny Harvey is disillusioned; injured in the war and disturbed at the changing world order; life seems to be passing him by. Jill Harvey, finally pregnant after four years of marriage, befriends sixteen-year-old Kate Viant, crippled with polio and abandoned by her family. Kate, left behind by society, might just prove her worth when something threatens the life of Jill’s unborn child . . .
 
 The stunning final book of the Harvey Family Sagas.

A Whisper of Life

A saga “centered on the effects of war on families, revealing the . . . range of human emotions, from courage and compassion to lust, vengeance, and greed”(Booklist).
 
 In the aftermath of the Second World War, Faye Harvey struggles against the stigma of being a single mother. Then Mark Fuller, badly ravaged by his POW experiences in Japan, arrives in Cornwall. Faye is drawn to him but then the father of her son, a Scottish laird, turns up, offering marriage now that he is a widower. Faye is torn, but her main concern has to be what is best for her son. Meanwhile Faye’s uncle Tristan falls for the new housekeeper, but their age difference and her distrust of men make love seem impossible. And over at Ford Farm, Faye's cousin Lottie Harmon, waiting for her former GI husband to come from America, beings to fear she may not want a new life with him after all . . .