Promise in the Void

By: Eileen MacDonald

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In the aftermath of WWII, Canadian citizens are left to face their private battles at home. Where the land should heal its own people, war has left them torn and incomplete. Helen, a war bride from England, journeys with her infant son to an unfamiliar continent on the hope of a promise. She is shocked to find more uncertainty upon her arrival in Canada. She perseveres in her duties as wife to a suffering veteran and mother to his son. Helen’s resolve – to fight for her young family and make the vast, distant prairies her new homeland – reveals the strength and power of a young war bride’s heart.

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No. 4 in Historical Fiction

No. 1 in Novels

SKU: N/A Categories: Historical Fiction, Novels Tags: Canada, Canadian, Canadian author, Canadian culture, canadian history, hope, immigration, Motherhood, Novel, Prairies, war, war bride, women, world war II, WWII

Where the land should heal its own people, war has left them torn and incomplete

Helen, a war bride from England, journeys with her infant son to an unfamiliar continent on the hope of a promise. A promise that is, at times, hard to hold on to. In the aftermath of WWII. Canadian citizens were left to face their private battles at home. Helen determinedly perseveres as wife to a suffering veteran and mother to his son. Her resolve to fight for her family and make the vast, distant prairies her homeland, reveal the strength and power of a war-bride’s heart.

Eileen began writing Promise in the Void in the mid-1940s. Many aspects of the story parallel her own journey as an immigrant to Canada. In 1997 she passed the manuscript on to her granddaughter Rebekah, who has now released it to the public.

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