ASIN: B01MUCNILF
Publisher: Amazon.com Services LLC
Pages: 320
Love defies all odds…When Nicola first arrives in London, she is only eleven years old, just off a children’s Famine Train from Austria, and plastered with tags and labels identifying who she is.She refers to herself as “an ex-enemy” of England — her father, left behind, is a colonel who served with the Hussars — and awaits someone to come and take charge of her in this strange new city.When Kathleen Conroy arrives at Victoria Station to pick Nicola up, she doesn’t come alone — her nephew, Peter, accompanies her. For Nicola, the romance of life seems to begin from the very moment that Peter Conroy, nineteen, Irish, and adventurous, finds her on the platform.For Peter, meeting the young Austrian girl marks the beginning of the rest of his life; fired from his job, he sets out to see the world and, in the process, discovers the real thrill of living. Years later, Peter and Nicola are ...
