No Enemy but Time

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Returning home to Ireland, Claire Eraser was besieged by memories. A childhood full of games and innocent adventures, the changing retinue of family dogs, ponies to ride, hunting, with Frank taking the leading rein.
For as long as she could remember her half-brother had been her dearest and closest friend - always there to keep her safe.
And now he had disappeared. Kidnapped possibly. Maybe murdered.
All Claire knew was that now he needed her. And that she could not let one, solitary second go by without trying to find him.
Her family had been in Ireland since 1798. They were prosperous, solid Anglo-Irish with decent, traditional values. But against the advice of his parents and friends Claire's father, Philip, had married a local farmer's daughter, who had died in childbirth. After which, he married again.
Out of so much love, so much misery had come. Out of closeness, such division. Was it true, what Frank had said once, that wretched day they said goodbye? 'It's not... Tovább

Fülszöveg

Returning home to Ireland, Claire Eraser was besieged by memories. A childhood full of games and innocent adventures, the changing retinue of family dogs, ponies to ride, hunting, with Frank taking the leading rein.
For as long as she could remember her half-brother had been her dearest and closest friend - always there to keep her safe.
And now he had disappeared. Kidnapped possibly. Maybe murdered.
All Claire knew was that now he needed her. And that she could not let one, solitary second go by without trying to find him.
Her family had been in Ireland since 1798. They were prosperous, solid Anglo-Irish with decent, traditional values. But against the advice of his parents and friends Claire's father, Philip, had married a local farmer's daughter, who had died in childbirth. After which, he married again.
Out of so much love, so much misery had come. Out of closeness, such division. Was it true, what Frank had said once, that wretched day they said goodbye? 'It's not anybody's fault, Claire. Not Dad's or Claudia's or mine. If you want to know why things have turned out the way they are, you have to go back to the beginning.'
With heartbreaking intensity Evelyn Anthony chronicles the story of a divided family and divided loyalties in a divided land - at the heart of which is an impossible and doomed relationship, of half-brother and half-sister. No Enemy But Time is the most ambitious, powerful and moving novel that Evelyn Anthony has ever written. Vissza