One Single Hour"Novel teems with alcohol abuse, sex, violence and family conflict." "Sawler's story is exciting and worth reading....if you're looking for something different to read, One Single Hour is definitely in the running." "...lively characters and never-failing invention..." |
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The possibility that the events of one single hour can affect the rest of one's life, and a true occurrence—the peacetime foundering of HMS Raleigh on August 8, 1922 in the Labrador Straits—has inspired this novel of human defeat, grinding misery, personal discovery and in the end, love.
Captain Halliwell sholders the entire blame for the demise of the flagship of the British North Atlantic squadron and ten of his men. From that disastrous moment, he wastes away in a sullen marriage and a repressive job in his hometown of Stratford, England. In the final episode of his frail and gloomy life, Halliwell recognizes there is one bright spot he has managed to overlook: his seven-year-old granddaughter Lee. He bequeaths Lee a thought-provoking ideal, setting her eventually on a course to steer her own ship of fate with fine mastery.
A group of Canadian graduate students vacationing in Stratford charter a narrowboat from a fleet owned by Lee's father. They manage to have the first-ever, near fatal accident while traversing a towering aqueduct. The charter leader, Ivey Beals, is drawn to Lee and her uncanny resemblance to a hometown Labrador girl who has evaded his pursuits for years. Ivey's and Lee's attraction is strong in spite of a sequence of outside intrusions and argumentative encounters that keep them apart. when Lee travels to Labrador to trace her grandfather's scant history, she finds much more than she bargained for.
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