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Anna's Home Front
It’s September 1940.
During the middle of a Blitz raid on London, Journalist Anna Forrester receives the phone call that will change everything.
Her dying mother leaves her the diary of the long deceased aristocratic heiress Elizabeth Leyac. Just who was this Elizabeth and how did her mother come to be in possession of the dead girl’s diary? And what is the connection to the famous mystery of the missing Leyac twin, stolen from his crib just hours after birth 25 years earlier?
1908 Elizabeth Leyac’s father dies suddenly and her devastated mother tells her a secret, which sets in motion a chain of events in Elizabeth’s life. Just what is this secret which devastates the young girl and why does she refuse to record it in her diary?
Join Anna as she follows Elizabeth’s story and uncovers her secrets, while coming to terms with her own mother’s death and the mysterious threats from her own absent father.
During the middle of a Blitz raid on London, Journalist Anna Forrester receives the phone call that will change everything.
Her dying mother leaves her the diary of the long deceased aristocratic heiress Elizabeth Leyac. Just who was this Elizabeth and how did her mother come to be in possession of the dead girl’s diary? And what is the connection to the famous mystery of the missing Leyac twin, stolen from his crib just hours after birth 25 years earlier?
1908 Elizabeth Leyac’s father dies suddenly and her devastated mother tells her a secret, which sets in motion a chain of events in Elizabeth’s life. Just what is this secret which devastates the young girl and why does she refuse to record it in her diary?
Join Anna as she follows Elizabeth’s story and uncovers her secrets, while coming to terms with her own mother’s death and the mysterious threats from her own absent father.
387 pages, Kindle Edition
Published September 27, 2016
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About the author
Sara Thomson
2 books7 followersSara Thomson was born in the north east of England in 1978 and grew up with divorced parents, and subsequently a step family. She has written all her life and the first book she ever penned was a picture book for her 2 year old little sister when she was 7. She painstakingly drew tiny pictures of little hedgehogs and animals, stuck the whole thing together with sellotape and presented this work to a delighted little girl. It was around this time, she realised that she couldn't draw, this talent had passed to this same sister who had received the little story book with such joy.
Growing up she always had a secret desire to write books, but hid this away because she knew it was one of those dreams where people say things like;
"Yes, but what real job are you going to do?"
However, after getting married young and having four children over the next 15 year period, Sara realised that life is far too short to listen to that inner demon that tells you not to follow your dreams, and began writing Anna's Home Front following a three year stint at University studying a BA Hons in English with Creative Writing.
Now, finally she is following her dreams and has plans to write many more books including the follow-up to Anna's Home Front titled, The Prisoner.
Growing up she always had a secret desire to write books, but hid this away because she knew it was one of those dreams where people say things like;
"Yes, but what real job are you going to do?"
However, after getting married young and having four children over the next 15 year period, Sara realised that life is far too short to listen to that inner demon that tells you not to follow your dreams, and began writing Anna's Home Front following a three year stint at University studying a BA Hons in English with Creative Writing.
Now, finally she is following her dreams and has plans to write many more books including the follow-up to Anna's Home Front titled, The Prisoner.
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February 20, 2018
Interesting, (may be a plot spoiler for some).
I though the concept of the story was interesting. However as I got deeper into the book, it seemed to drag a little. Why, if you recovered a diary, would you read only small amounts over weeks? This is what stuck in my mind as I continued to read. It just didn't seem like something Anna, a newspaper reporter, would reasonably do. I wondered what the author could do to tell the story, let the mystery unfold at the same pace, but not put the main character in an unbelievable situation.
I though the concept of the story was interesting. However as I got deeper into the book, it seemed to drag a little. Why, if you recovered a diary, would you read only small amounts over weeks? This is what stuck in my mind as I continued to read. It just didn't seem like something Anna, a newspaper reporter, would reasonably do. I wondered what the author could do to tell the story, let the mystery unfold at the same pace, but not put the main character in an unbelievable situation.
December 16, 2020
I really enjoyed this book. The character of Anna is interesting as she is one of the 1940s ladies who thinks she can do just as well as a man in a man's world (journalism) but is prevented from doing so because of the culture of sexism at the time. She is given a diary by her dying mother and sets about reading it over a period of time, since she is also working as a journalist and trying to wrap up her mother's cottage and estate. The idea of finding an old diary and exploring the background and history to it is intriguing and Anna decides to find out the mystery behind the contents of the diary as it may be her chance to show the editor she can do a really good job of research and a story. The parallel stories of Anna and the diary unfold gradually leaving the reader wanting to read on and find out the final outcome which is a surprise.
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