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This book tells the story of a family shaped by social class and the ironies of war. It conveys the disparity between Penne's privileged, upper-class English and provincial Canadian backgrounds, made achingly clear in family stories from both continents. Through historical digs into old documents and letters and a series of interviews with her parents, Penne illuminates and revives their long-buried memories of upper-class soirees, a time of war, tragedy, a love affair and youthful dreams -- a time when a young war bride willingly risked travelling thousands of miles to follow her Canadian amputee husband into an uncertain future. In this fresh and unusual biography, A S Penne writes with emotional force and engaging honesty toward cultural synthesis and self-discovery. In the end, she does, indeed, find home where she least expects it.

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An unusually well-written account of the author's research into her parents' orignins. -- Family History Monthly, Feb 2004.

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