Finding Eadie
Caroline Beecham
Reviewed by Helen
I thoroughly enjoyed this book, I have not read one of MS Beecham’s stories before but I will be reading more, beautifully written with lots of heartfelt emotion, It is 1943 World War 11 London and times are hard as we meet Alice Cotton and journey with her through ups and downs.
Alice is working at Partridge Press she is a young and rising star in the publishing business as Partridge are doing their best with rationing to gets books out there for the servicemen and people to take their minds of what is going on. Alice has a secret that she is keeping from her workmates and leaves her job and no one knows where she is, her secret is to have her baby she refuses to tell her mother who the father is but her mother says she will help her raise her child but that ends up not being the case and Alice’s mother does the worst thing she can to her daughter after baby Eadie is born.
Theo Bloom is working for the American office for Partridge Press he is engaged to the boss’s daughter and is very enthusiastic about getting books out to everyone, when he is asked to go to London to see if he can help them, he does but would rather stay in New York. He arrives and it is not long before he is feeling very comfortable with the London branch becoming friends with the staff, Alice is found although she seems a different person but she agrees to come back to work and get the book published that she started.
This story is heartbreaking at times but also heartwarming as Alice shows what strength she has to find her baby and the close friendships that she has with her workmates as they discover her secret and join in the search, she becomes very close to Theo and there is of course a fiancé to think of, but Theo has fallen head over heels for Alice and England is where he wants to stay.
This story is one of love and friendship of doing what you need to do to get what you want, it is a story too of how important books are especially in times of war and disasters, it is poignant with so many emotions such a great story one that I highly recommend, MS Beecham has bought up things that happened during the war and done it so very well.
Thank you Allen & Unwin for my copy to read.
Alice is working at Partridge Press she is a young and rising star in the publishing business as Partridge are doing their best with rationing to gets books out there for the servicemen and people to take their minds of what is going on. Alice has a secret that she is keeping from her workmates and leaves her job and no one knows where she is, her secret is to have her baby she refuses to tell her mother who the father is but her mother says she will help her raise her child but that ends up not being the case and Alice’s mother does the worst thing she can to her daughter after baby Eadie is born.
Theo Bloom is working for the American office for Partridge Press he is engaged to the boss’s daughter and is very enthusiastic about getting books out to everyone, when he is asked to go to London to see if he can help them, he does but would rather stay in New York. He arrives and it is not long before he is feeling very comfortable with the London branch becoming friends with the staff, Alice is found although she seems a different person but she agrees to come back to work and get the book published that she started.
This story is heartbreaking at times but also heartwarming as Alice shows what strength she has to find her baby and the close friendships that she has with her workmates as they discover her secret and join in the search, she becomes very close to Theo and there is of course a fiancé to think of, but Theo has fallen head over heels for Alice and England is where he wants to stay.
This story is one of love and friendship of doing what you need to do to get what you want, it is a story too of how important books are especially in times of war and disasters, it is poignant with so many emotions such a great story one that I highly recommend, MS Beecham has bought up things that happened during the war and done it so very well.
Thank you Allen & Unwin for my copy to read.
4 stars
Published July 2nd 2020 by Allen & Unwin
