Crossing the Bridge
Nancy Cunningham
Reviewed by Helen
Huge congratulations on a fabulous debut, this one is beautifully written with heartfelt emotion and I felt pulled into the story from the start, the characters are easy to like and it was easy to feel their emotions throughout the story, take a trip back to 1944 to a small country farming town in South Australia and meet Poppy Guildford and JB Beaton and a cast of wonderful characters.
Poppy is a widowed mother of eight year old Glenn, times are hard at the moment with a war going on and Poppy is working really hard to keep the family farm going for her son, the pressure is on, there are talks with the bank but when she discovers a secret about her husband Poppy is stunned and this just causes more worry and stress, Poppy meets the new farmhand from her neighbour’s farm and the attraction is instant, is there a chance she could find love again? Poppy is strong but with her terrible Aunt Violet threatening her, her world is turning upside down.
JB Beaton has returned from the war injured both physically and mentally, he has a young son Lee who is five years old but he needs to take off and find himself, so he leaves Lee with his sister and finds himself working as a farmhand on a farm in the small town of Coyders Creek here he meets the beautiful widow Poppy and soon things are starting look better as he an Poppy get to know each other, but will small town gossip and Poppy’s aunt tear things apart?
This is a beautiful story filled with emotion, I loved meeting Poppy what a fabulous woman times were not easy for woman back then and Poppy was running the farm so well she stood her ground with all that was happing with a caring and loving heart and JB I felt so much for him, he had been through a lot and now it looks like he had found the happiness he so deserved, there are some wonderful characters that add to the story Walter, Ronnie and Charlie and even the horrible Aunt Violet played her part, I do highly recommend this one and am looking forward to many more stories from this new author.
My thanks to the publisher Escape and Netgalley for my copy to read and review.
Poppy is a widowed mother of eight year old Glenn, times are hard at the moment with a war going on and Poppy is working really hard to keep the family farm going for her son, the pressure is on, there are talks with the bank but when she discovers a secret about her husband Poppy is stunned and this just causes more worry and stress, Poppy meets the new farmhand from her neighbour’s farm and the attraction is instant, is there a chance she could find love again? Poppy is strong but with her terrible Aunt Violet threatening her, her world is turning upside down.
JB Beaton has returned from the war injured both physically and mentally, he has a young son Lee who is five years old but he needs to take off and find himself, so he leaves Lee with his sister and finds himself working as a farmhand on a farm in the small town of Coyders Creek here he meets the beautiful widow Poppy and soon things are starting look better as he an Poppy get to know each other, but will small town gossip and Poppy’s aunt tear things apart?
This is a beautiful story filled with emotion, I loved meeting Poppy what a fabulous woman times were not easy for woman back then and Poppy was running the farm so well she stood her ground with all that was happing with a caring and loving heart and JB I felt so much for him, he had been through a lot and now it looks like he had found the happiness he so deserved, there are some wonderful characters that add to the story Walter, Ronnie and Charlie and even the horrible Aunt Violet played her part, I do highly recommend this one and am looking forward to many more stories from this new author.
My thanks to the publisher Escape and Netgalley for my copy to read and review.
4 stars
January 1, 2024 by Escape Publishing
