The broken bough (Hallam Family ; #1)
Family stories, War stories
Human-narrated audio
Summary
In the early 1900s pretty Cathy Read is widowed when her husband, Bill, is killed in an accident and soon life is a struggle. She has three young children to feed and clothe: Verity, Addie and Peg, so when Cathy's… eldest sister offers to adopt Verity, she reluctantly agrees. Despite a new marriage to an old friend of Bill's, Cathy's hardships only increase with the addition of two more children and, eventually, the outbreak of war in 1914. During the war, Verity becomes a nursing sister, Addie a teacher, and Peg considers embarking on a career as a journalist. By the time of the Armistice, each member of the family finds her life radically changed by a world with strange new values. 2001. (Hallam Family ; 1)