The Lavender House in Meuse (eBook)

Gail Noble-Sanderson (Autor)

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2017 | 2., Revision
192 Seiten
Noble Press (Verlag)
978-0-9991386-3-2 (ISBN)

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The year is 1923 and the world continues its recovery from the ravages of World War I. In this second historical novel in the Meuse Trilogy, MARIE DURANT CHAGALL, now 27 years old, continues her own journey towards recovery, planning a return to nursing with a grand scheme of opening a rural health clinic, La Clinique Meuse.Pressured by her Papa and sister Solange, now living in New York City, Marie reluctantly consents to a visit and sets sail on the beautiful SS Paris. Her experiences aboard ship, in America and in Paris at La Hospital Pitie-Salpetriere before returning home again to Meuse, propel her forward towards her destiny in ways she could not have imagined.People from diverse and intriguing backgrounds and familiar characters from book one, The Lavender House in Meuse, journey alongside Marie, their own search for new beginnings often intersecting her own. The Passage Home to Meuse is a riveting account and vivid adventure of one woman's tenacity and determination to take back her life ultimately finding the journey is the true destination.

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 TAB LE OF CONTENTS
FROM THE AUTHOR. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .4
Chapter 1 Growing up in Marseille, 1905 – 1915. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .8
Chapter 2 Papa, 1913 – 1915. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .19
Chapter 3 Nursing, July 1915 – April 1916. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .25
Chapter 4 The Battles, Verdun, April 1916 – December 1916 . . . . . . . . . . . . . .38
Chapter 5 Nursing in Paris, December 1916 – December 1919. . . . . . . . . . . . .46
Chapter 6 Home and Then Home, December 1919 – April 1920 . . . . . . . . . . .53
Chapter 7 To Meuse, May 1920. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .65
Chapter 8 Cleaning the Rooms, August 1920. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .71
Chapter 9 The Boys Arrive, September 1920. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .81
Chapter 10 Laurent, September 1920 – June 1921. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .90
Chapter 11 When Solange Came to Visit, July 1921. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 102
Chapter 12 The Sewing Box, October 1921. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 118
Chapter 13 Aprons, Fall 1921 – Winter 1921 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 126
Chapter 14 The Pomegranate, Winter 1921. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 132
Chapter 15 The Beehives, Late Spring 1922. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 136
Chapter 16 The Other Sisters, May 1922 – September 1922. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 142
Chapter 17 Fishing, May 1922. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 152
Chapter 18 Pedro, The Little Beast, September 1922. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 163
Chapter 19 Healing, Late November 1922. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 166
Chapter 20 Letter from Papa, December 1922. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 178
HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE – BATTLE OF VERDUN. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 181
Historical Perspective – Lavender . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 183
Historical Perspective – Apiculture and Hone y. . . . . . . . . 184
Acknowledgments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 186
READER’S GUIDE. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 187

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 1.11.2017
• Reihe/Serie: The Meuse Series
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Historische Romane
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Klassiker / Moderne Klassiker
• Schlagworte: Fiction • France • Historical • nurses • Romance • Women • WW1
• ISBN-10: 0-9991386-3-4 / 0999138634
• ISBN-13: 978-0-9991386-3-2 / 9780999138632