St Ives Memory

by Jennifer Malech

During the midst of the war, Rose, daughter of Cafe Royal's accomplished pianist Lloyd Fox, learns her father's secret. She isn't his daughter. After Lloyd tells the truth about her birth, for years afterwards, Rose struggles to make sense of her life and the dark secrets of her own mother's troubled past. Despite her family's disapproval, Rose, while finishing up her final year at Oxford, goes on a quest to find her birth father, Charles Atwood. Rose's greatest hope is to ask her birth father the questions that will allow her to better understand her mother's mental illness, and allow her family to no longer live in the darkness of the past. Her hopeful journey leads her to St Ives, Cornwall, where she will meet new friends, discover unexpected love and come across one woman's journal, filled with memories from the war, that will change her world forever. This book is the sequel to A Song for Somme.

355 pages, Paperback

Published January 11, 2019

About the author

Storyteller at all hours. Copywriter in Advertising by day, Author of Historical Fiction by night.

Reviews

[Becca]

What a beautiful follow up to A Song for Somme! The characters are both lovable and relatable. The author addresses difficult subjects, such as trust, mental illness, and redemption, in a powerful and healing way. Now all I want to do is take a visit to St Ives!

[Karen Elizabeth · Rating 5 out of 5]

Having read A Song for Somme, I could not wait to read the sequel (although, I think you could read this without reading the previous book and still love it).

This book just took me away to a different time and to lives that loved and lost so much. Rose's journey to discover the truth about her childhood will take you on an enjoyable roller coaster ride. The writing is beautiful and captivating. With every page turned, I wanted a new page. I could vividly picture the characters, the settings, and time period.
I loved this book and was sorry to see it end. It was one of those books that I simply sat and read letting everything else in my life go by the wayside.