Cold Sunflowers, Mark Sippings
Cold Sunflowers, Mark Sippings
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Cold Sunflowers

Author: Mark Sippings

Narrator: Joseph Alexander Rawlings

Unabridged: 7 hr 23 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Mark Sippings

Published: 11/15/2020


Synopsis

‘Everything happens for a reason.’   It’s 1972. Raymond Mann is seventeen. He is fearful of life and can’t get off buses. He says his prayers every night and spends too much time in his room.   He meets Ernest Gardiner, a gentleman in his seventies who’s become tired of living and misses the days of chivalry and honour. Together they discover a love of sunflowers and stars, and help each other learn to love the world.   Ernest recounts his experiences of 1917 war-torn France where he served as a photographer in the trenches … of his first love, Mira, and how his life was saved by his friend Bill, a hardened soldier.But all is not as it seems, and there is one more secret that will change Raymond’s life for ever.            Cold Sunflowers is a story of love.              All love.            But most of all it’s about the love of life and the need to cherish every moment. 

Reviews

Goodreads review by Lydia

Such a sweet tale of the unlikely friendship between an elderly man and a teenager. United by their love of sunflowers, gardening and nature and connected too by the fear of what their futures may hold. Beautifully told.......more

Goodreads review by D.K.

It is a remarkable testament to the way of the world right now that authors who self publish can find their books taken on an equal footing with those published through traditional mainstream houses. And so it should be. This is, to an extent, taking us back to the old tradition of authors printing......more

Goodreads review by Delcy

Slow to start. Writing is beautifully done. Characters are relatable. Middle was ok Ending has too many coincidental happenings to tie it all up nicely at the end which made it a bit sappy and “happily ever after.”......more