Namesake: A bitter sweet coming of age time-travelling adventure in Cornwall 1944

by Jacqueline Smith

The Cornish beach Louie swims back to isn’t the one she left. Everything has changed. Has she stumbled onto the set of a reality TV show? Or has the gear stick of time shifted to 1944, just weeks away from D Day? Louie finds herself in a race against time to grasp the rules, locate key-players and find a way home. Thrown together with land girls, she discovers she isn’t the only one out of place. Evacuees, segregated black GIs, young soldiers preparing for D Day, a Jewish land girl and a German POW called Horst challenge Louie to accept that she was made for this time and has a vital part to play. But prior knowledge, a mesh of wartime misinformation and a mission to save two young boys get in the way. Can Louie outwit time? Or is her fate to become reconciled to the fact that she will die before she was even born? Namesake is a coming of age time-travelling journey through the events leading up to D Day in Cornwall during WWII, racism, land girls, POWS and the bitter sweetness of friendship and first love."John Buchan meets Malorie Blackman on the beaches of Cornwall. A fantastic romp..." Michael Odell, journalist and author (Rock Bottom)

248 pages, Paperback

Published October 10, 2020