Vivacious and attractive Beryl holds centre stage amongst her group of friends, never having to arbitrate, swanning to the fore on the breeze of her sunny nature. The group meet in the local pub, Drifters, to celebrate the promise of a timeless youth.
Set against the backdrop of the “Phoney War” in 1939, Beryl suffers the loss of her lovers, even Scully, her hut mate, taken from her one by one as the real war engulfs their lives. And as England withdraws, battered and beaten from Dunkirk, to stand alone in her darkest hour, Beryl makes a desperate decision, naming her first child in memory of her most passionate secret, the fighter pilot she imagined she could never lose.
The story of 1939 moves through the relationships between the various couples in the group. Whatever the circumstances and in whatever time frame they met and befriended each other, they are driven by the same force, part evil, part good, of chaos in a war of insidious fear between heart and mind. When Beryl toasts “To love; that we may always find it again,” on Christmas Eve, she is in fact reaching for a way out of her flirtatious youth in an attempt to find a more mature self.
Alas! The mania of war intervenes. Beryl’s search flounders in the bloated corpse of an airman lost over the English Channel. Her lies multiply and her phoney self captures the soul of her once vivacious character stringing her to the hanging post of a future she once claimed “as mine; everything’s mine.”
And if the art of life is to survive, Beryl now makes her final decision; to go, far, far away with the last man standing.
Vivacious and attractive Beryl holds centre stage amongst her group of friends, never having to arbitrate, swanning to the fore on the breeze of her sunny nature. The group meet in the local pub, Drifters, to celebrate the promise of a timeless youth.
Set against the backdrop of the “Phoney War” in 1939, Beryl suffers the loss of her lovers, even Scully, her hut mate, taken from her one by one as the real war engulfs their lives. And as England withdraws, battered and beaten from Dunkirk, to stand alone in her darkest hour, Beryl makes a desperate decision, naming her first child in memory of her most passionate secret, the fighter pilot she imagined she could never lose.
The story of 1939 moves through the relationships between the various couples in the group. Whatever the circumstances and in whatever time frame they met and befriended each other, they are driven by the same force, part evil, part good, of chaos in a war of insidious fear between heart and mind. When Beryl toasts “To love; that we may always find it again,” on Christmas Eve, she is in fact reaching for a way out of her flirtatious youth in an attempt to find a more mature self.
Alas! The mania of war intervenes. Beryl’s search flounders in the bloated corpse of an airman lost over the English Channel. Her lies multiply and her phoney self captures the soul of her once vivacious character stringing her to the hanging post of a future she once claimed “as mine; everything’s mine.”
And if the art of life is to survive, Beryl now makes her final decision; to go, far, far away with the last man standing.
1939
1939
Product Details
| BN ID: | 2940154434253 |
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| Publisher: | Southwest Baptist University |
| Publication date: | 08/25/2017 |
| Sold by: | Smashwords |
| Format: | eBook |
| File size: | 257 KB |
| Age Range: | 18 Years |