Like a powerful sense of deja vu. recent events in Helen's life had an all-too-familiar ring.
There was she, married to a Guardsman at eighteen after a whirlwind courtship, and widowed before she was forty. Though she put on a brave face, Helen could no more reconcile herself to Adam's death than she could accept the hemmed-in, incestuous life of the Army and all its intrigues and affairs. And now here was her impulsive, free-spirited daughter Ruth, eighteen herself, standing by the side of a man who bore the unmistakable Guards stamp, a man who would very soon be posted to Northern Ireland, a man whom Ruth was desperately anxious to marry...
Genre: General Fiction
There was she, married to a Guardsman at eighteen after a whirlwind courtship, and widowed before she was forty. Though she put on a brave face, Helen could no more reconcile herself to Adam's death than she could accept the hemmed-in, incestuous life of the Army and all its intrigues and affairs. And now here was her impulsive, free-spirited daughter Ruth, eighteen herself, standing by the side of a man who bore the unmistakable Guards stamp, a man who would very soon be posted to Northern Ireland, a man whom Ruth was desperately anxious to marry...
Genre: General Fiction
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