GHOSTS IN SUNLIGHT
Gretta Curran Browne
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
4.00
· 3 ratings · 328 pages · Published: 15 Apr 2015
AN ENGLISH-AMERICAN LOVE STORY; set in London, Massachusetts, Paris and Stockholm.
"Part love story, part thriller, It’s hard to resist turning the pages" -- .BELFAST TELEGRAPH
`Succeeds in combining a fast-paced tale involving vast sums of money, immense power, women both wounded and wounding, and a variety of credible male characters from the traumatised Vietnam veteran Jimmy Overman to the seedy publisher, James Duncan … an excellent book.’-- IE BOOK REVIEW
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'Books are often described as “page-turners” but this is very true of this one … Once started the reader will find it very hard to put down.’-- SOUTHSIDE NEWS.
‘Plenty of suspense and drama … Very enjoyable.’-- WOMANS WAY
`Browne has a talent for drawing us into her characters and situations … this is a real page turner.’--- IRISH NEWS
."WOW, WOW, and MORE WOW! - Absolutely loved, loved, and loved this book! The storyline was outstanding, as it moved along, developing the characters. I felt like I knew each one myself. Many I loved, and a couple I despised. It's very sad in places, and then it turns you around hooraying the next chapter.
Usually, I only give five stars to thrillers with multiple story lines and underground cave systems and treasures. And, they have a hero and/or a heroine who jump ravines and crawl through crevices with the enemy chasing them along. Danger at every turn, always thinking of amazing escape tactics and succeeding. But, this book did it by working on my feelings and emotions. Something new for me, and definitely worth the five stars.
If you're browsing for a great read that will keep you intrigued for hours, this is the one! Even when I was not reading it, I was thinking about it. It was a part of my life for a couple of enjoyable days. Amazing creation!" -- Sylvia Banschbach.
The author’s themes in this fabulous book range from young and tender love to old and bitter hatreds. From the misery of bed-sit poverty of London in the 1960s to the power of immense wealth in the 1990s.
In a time when the world was excitedly influenced by the cultured intellectualism of the new America president John F. Kennedy, MARIAN BARNARD is a young woman who falls hopelessly in love with MARC GAINES, a young American tourists who walks into the London restaurant where she works as a waitress. She discovers that he is a lieutenant in the US Army and totally devoted to the civil rights policies of JFK and his brother Robert.
Marian also becomes the true love of Marc’s life but both are unaware of the obsessive adoration of Marc's mother for her only son. JACQUELINE GAINES – French and proudly Parisian, who had formerly been a young sabotage commando and vengeful killer in the French Resistance when the Nazis invaded her beloved Paris – and now Jacqueline was determined to sabotage her son’s relationship with the English girl.
Through JIMMY OVERMAN, Marc’s best friend, we get a deep insight into the personal and American tragedy that was the Vietnam War and the soldiers who returned from it, still seeing the ghosts of their friends left behind.
`This is a real page turner …’ IRISH NEWS
`Part love story, part thriller, it’s hard to resist turning the pages.’ BELFAST TELEGRAPH
`An excellent book.’ IE BOOK REVIEW
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