![]() ![]() ![]() The year is 1910, and the four Purcell sisters have only each other. We read a lot and made up stories to entertain each other. 'We led a very solitary existence,' she says. It tells of her eventful time as a volunteer nurse in France during the Great War and her ill-started love story with Geoffrey Mackenzie. A novel by Ruth Elwin Harris Four independent-minded sisters come of age in the early 1900s - and four interwoven novels tell their stories, each through a different sisters eyes. Ruth Elwin Harris began storytelling during the Second World War when she and her brother went to stay with their grandfather in his isolated Somerset house. The Dividing Sea (Book Three) is Julia's story. ![]() But with the help of the Mackenzies - their guardian and his family, whom the sisters come to love in very different ways - Sarah, Frances, Julia, and Gwen find the courage to follow their own paths in a world that is rapidly changing.Īvid readers and fans of historical-fiction classics will love these spirited heroines - named "the Little Women of our times" by the TIMES of London - and will be thoroughly absorbed by their intertwining tales, full of feistiness, creativity, and young romance. Their mother has died, leaving them orphans in a rambling country estate. The year is 1910, and the four Purcell sisters have only each other. Growing up in England, Ruth Elwin Harris decided to travel and see the world, believing it would strengthen her writing. ![]() įour independent-minded sisters come of age in the early 1900s - and four interwoven novels tell their stories, each through a different sister's eyes. Originally published in Britain as The Dividing Sea. ![]()
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