Ghosts in Sunlight - Hardcover

Browne, Gretta Curran

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0863277284 ISBN 13: 9780863277283

Publisher: Wolfhound Press, 1999

Synopsis

The author’s themes in this fabulous book range from young and tender love to old and bitter hatreds. From the misery of bed-sit poverty of London in the 1960s to the power of immense wealth in the 1990s.

In a time when the world was excitedly influenced by the cultured intellectualism of the new America president John F. Kennedy, MARIAN BARNARD is a young woman who falls hopelessly in love with MARC GAINES, a young American tourists who walks into the London restaurant where she works as a waitress. She discovers that he is a lieutenant in the US Army and totally devoted to the civil rights policies of JFK and his brother Robert.

Marian also becomes the true love of Marc’s life but both are unaware of the obsessive adoration of Marc's mother for her only son. JACQUELINE GAINES – French and proudly Parisian, who had formerly been a young sabotage commando and vengeful killer in the French Resistance when the Nazis invaded her beloved Paris – and now Jacqueline was determined to sabotage her son’s relationship with the English girl.

Through JIMMY OVERMAN, Marc’s best friend, we get a deep insight into the personal and American tragedy that was the Vietnam War and the soldiers who returned from it, still seeing the ghosts of their friends left behind.

AN ENGLISH-AMERICAN LOVE STORY; set in London, Massachusetts, Paris and Stockholm.

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Review

`Succeeds in combining a fast-paced tale involving vast sums of money, immense power, women both wounded and wounding, and a variety of credible male characters from the traumatised Vietnam veteran Jimmy Overman to the seedy publisher, James Duncan ... an excellent book.' IE BOOK REVIEW . 'Books are often described as "page-turners" but this is very true of this one ... Once started the reader will find it very hard to put down.' SOUTHSIDE NEWS.

Synopsis

Cheated by life itself, Marian Barnard is dead, and her body lies awaiting identification. The killer's name is etched on Phil's mind. Stamped beside it is the word "Revenge". In this world of passion and pain, Phil's ambition is to shape his own life and to secure the fulfilment denied his parents

About this edition

• Publisher: Wolfhound Press
• Publication date: 1999
• ISBN 10: 0863277284
• ISBN 13: 9780863277283
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 448