Halfway up a Swiss mountain, Olivier Paul knows nothing but isolation and near slavery. Aged 15, he learns of his heritage: his father was an iterant labour and his mother from a noble Fribourg family. He flees the farm to discover his roots.
Charlotte Favre is happily single and working as Head librarian at Fribourg University. Within the women’s movement, she is a passionate campaigner for the right to vote. To her delight, a record-breaking petition supporting female suffrage is delivered to the government. To her dismay, it is completely ignored.
Now a railwayman, Olivier travels to Fribourg and observes Charlotte, Eloise and Bastian Favre at a distance. When he proves he is their nephew, it detonates a bombshell in the family. The sisters embrace their new relation. Bastian is suspicious of the boy’s Yenish parentage.
Charlotte spends time with Olivier and considers adopting him, albeit an impossibility as a Swiss single woman in 1929. When she confides in her friend Leon, he offers to marry her. But Charlotte has spent her whole life afraid of intimacy. What is love?
For his part, Olivier feels the poor relation. He is useful when work needs doing, but does not belong. Tensions rise to boiling point after Bastian wrongfully accuses him of seducing his cousin. Olivier leaves for Zürich, intending to become his own man.
With Europe’s fragile peace fraying, the prospect of war casts a threatening shadow. Can Oliver and Charlotte find their own path to happiness and escape the patterns of the past?
The Years Between Series(Book 3) is set in 1928 – 1932 andfollows two Favre family members who ‘live in ‘interesting times’ : the Wall Street Crash, the Great Depression, the rise of the National Socialists and the Spanish Civil War.
Genre: Historical
Charlotte Favre is happily single and working as Head librarian at Fribourg University. Within the women’s movement, she is a passionate campaigner for the right to vote. To her delight, a record-breaking petition supporting female suffrage is delivered to the government. To her dismay, it is completely ignored.
Now a railwayman, Olivier travels to Fribourg and observes Charlotte, Eloise and Bastian Favre at a distance. When he proves he is their nephew, it detonates a bombshell in the family. The sisters embrace their new relation. Bastian is suspicious of the boy’s Yenish parentage.
Charlotte spends time with Olivier and considers adopting him, albeit an impossibility as a Swiss single woman in 1929. When she confides in her friend Leon, he offers to marry her. But Charlotte has spent her whole life afraid of intimacy. What is love?
For his part, Olivier feels the poor relation. He is useful when work needs doing, but does not belong. Tensions rise to boiling point after Bastian wrongfully accuses him of seducing his cousin. Olivier leaves for Zürich, intending to become his own man.
With Europe’s fragile peace fraying, the prospect of war casts a threatening shadow. Can Oliver and Charlotte find their own path to happiness and escape the patterns of the past?
The Years Between Series(Book 3) is set in 1928 – 1932 andfollows two Favre family members who ‘live in ‘interesting times’ : the Wall Street Crash, the Great Depression, the rise of the National Socialists and the Spanish Civil War.
Genre: Historical