Love Has No Borders

Sinclair Family Saga #5

by Gwen Kirkwood

1930s, Yorkshire.

Fiery Marguerite Sinclair has loved Ricky Fortescue ever since she played hide and seek with him as a young girl at her aunt’s wedding.

Their love only grows as they spend blissful summers together at her grandparents’ farm and Ricky vows that he will one day marry her.

Soon World War Two looms on the horizon and Ricky is conscripted. He proposes to Marguerite, but she rejects him. She is more eager to become a nurse and help in the war effort than settle down.

But the hole that Ricky leaves in Marguerite’s life makes her realize she can’t live without him. And with oceans between them, she has no way of contacting him.

Marguerite waits for her dear Ricky to return so she can tell him how she really feels.

Until a terrible accident disrupts her plans. Will Marguerite and Ricky be able to reunite and find happiness in each others’ arms?

279 pages, Kindle Edition

First published June 17, 2019

About the author

Although I was born on a Yorkshire farm and went to school there I have lived most of my adult life in Scotland, UK. I am a widow now but my husband was a dairy farmer. My son continues farming and my younger daughter has a farm ice cream parlour. They both live near to me so they keep me up to date with life and changing trends and I enjoy my grandchildren’s company.

I did not start writing until my elder daughter went to university. I entered a Woman’s Weekly competition and I was fortunate when Lynda O'Byrne, the fiction editor, wrote to tell me she had liked my entry and suggested I finish it and send it to publisher Robert Hale. It was too long for their Rainbow Romance format but I made the changes suggested and it was published under the name Lynn Granger. Three more followed. I shall always be grateful for the early encouragement and patience I received at that time.

The purchase of an Amstrad computer for the farm accounts was a boon. It had a word processor - a great improvement on my typing and Tippex. This enabled me to write the four longer sagas in the Fairlyden series which starts around 1850 and follows the generations to the end of the First World War. My husband helped with research of farming history for these, delving into his collection of Scottish Farmer Albums going back to 1900. I wish I had listened to more of the stories from my grandparents.

Since winning the RNA Elizabeth Goudge Trophy in 2000 I have written eleven more sagas, all with Scottish settings.

I have recently uploaded my early romances under my own name of Gwen Kirkwood, to Amazon and Smashwords as e-books, also the first two of the Fairlyden series are now available as e-books. http://www.Amazon.com/author/gwenkirk...

I share a blog with four other writers at http://www.novelpointsofview.blogspot...

Occasionally I contribute to the RNA http://www.historicalsaganovels.blogs...

Reviews

[Tracy · Rating 5 out of 5]

These book saga is absolutely brilliant once you start reading you can’t put them down
Such lovely stories of each character and their families that expand through the years the good and bad times and how hard farming families worked and their farms passed down from generations and setting members of their family do whatever they wished to do
And during the war when everything changed and how they struggled through afterwards

[Susan · Rating 3 out of 5]

This was the final installment in the Sinclair family saga, and my least favorite of the five. It seemed like the author was trying to quickly wrap up every loose end, get everyone happily married and having babies. This one could have been better if she'd have focused on life during WWII for the Sinclairs, but skimmed over it pretty quickly instead.

[Janet Haylock · Rating 5 out of 5]

Nice read

[clara l henson · Rating 5 out of 5]

Great Reading.

Each book in the series has be such good
reading. The subject manne inr was spot on.
Will look for more books by Gwen Kirkwood.

[Megan Graves · Rating 5 out of 5]

LOVE this series. So sweet and great loves