A Stranger Light (The Harvey Family Sagas)

By: Gloria Cook

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Synopsis: A saga &“centered on the effects of war on families, revealing the . . . range of human emotions, from courage and compassion to lust, vengeance, and greed&”(Booklist). In the aftermath of the Second World War, Faye Harvey struggles against the stigma of being a single mother. Then Mark Fuller, badly ravaged by his POW experiences in Japan, arrives in Cornwall. Faye is drawn to him but then the father of her son, a Scottish laird, turns up, offering marriage now that he is a widower. Faye is torn, but her main concern has to be what is best for her son. Meanwhile Faye&’s uncle Tristan falls for the new housekeeper, but their age difference and her distrust of men make love seem impossible. And over at Ford Farm, Faye's cousin Lottie Harmon, waiting for her former GI husband to come from America, beings to fear she may not want a new life with him after all . . .