Linden Carroll
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Full Circle
- While a fictional piece of work, this historical novel is based in part on fact and extracts
from a friend’s life shared, albeit with some degree of trepidation. - ‘Full Circle’ is a story of the indomitable spirit of a youth.
- 12 years old and orphaned following WW2, he follows a clandestine lifestyle on the London streets while England rebuilds after the war.
- His rescue of another teen from the streets and their liaison cause him to experience the pain and intensity of first love and parenthood subsequently separating them. Becoming a seafaring adventurer he spends many years travelling across England and Canada finally returning to his homeland to re-claim his lost love and their daughter.
Author’s comment
Occasionally, a window in life opens allowing the light of ever-enduring love to shine in; a brilliant all-encompassing love.
As with all windows it must eventually close and the conscious and physical love are no more only to evolve into an energy force of unimaginable magnitude merging two soulmates to travel as one throughout eternity.
Many never experience a love such as this but those that do are indeed blessed.
Olive
- Olive is a story of human endurance spanning over four generations; from the end of the 19th century through to WWII, during the almost-total destruction of Southampton, a port city in southern England.
- Olive is the spine of this historical novel. Ostracised at birth by her family, Olive’s life is that of an opportunist and black marketer. She uses her sex, guile and music skills to move up, but there is a price to be paid and the children bear the cost.
- Olive demonstrates the impact one woman had on those whose lives she touched.
- The book also encompasses the ultimate triumph of 6 children making it to better lives.