Where Dragonflies Hover

Name: Where Dragonflies Hover
Brand: Findaway
Availability: InStock
Author: AnneMarie Brear
ISBN: 9781787822979

Author: AnneMarie Brear

Narrator: Karen Cass, Emma Powell

Unabridged: 7 hr 52 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Aurora Audio Books

Published: 03/01/2020

Categories: Fiction, Historical Fiction

Synopsis

Everyone thinks Lexi is crazy when she falls in love with Hollingsworth House, a crumbling old Georgian mansion in Yorkshire – and nobody more so than her husband, Dylan. But there’s something very special about the place, and Lexi can sense it. Whilst exploring the grounds, she stumbles across an old diary, and within its pages she meets Allie, an Australian nurse who worked in France during the First World War. Lexi finally realises her dream of buying Hollingsworth, but her obsession with the house leaves her marriage in tatters. In the lonely nights that follow, Allie’s diary becomes Lexi's companion, comforting her in moments of darkness and pain. As she reads, the nurse’s scandalous connection to her beloved house is revealed, and Lexi realises that sometimes a glimpse of the past can help make sense of the future…

Reviews

Goodreads review by Veronica ⭐️ on October 02, 2016

It’s 1945 and Alexandria (Allie) Jamieson is enjoying the spring sun at Hollingsworth House. Her body is racked with pain but she vows to herself that she must finish writing her diary so that someday someone will read it and know of the life and the love she had and that true love does exist. 2010 –......more

Goodreads review by Deanne on June 27, 2017

This is my first book by Annemarie Brear. I love historical fiction and it sounded fascinating so I decided to give it a chance. I am so glad I did. I was just blown away by this book. Where Dragonflies Hover features a dual timeline. A World War I nurse, Allie is an Australian nurse working in Franc......more

Goodreads review by Angie on May 25, 2017

A great dual-timelined story rich in atmosphere and emotions! Lexi and Allie are two women who share the same first name, Alexandria, and are connected though time with the diary Allie wrote about her life and which Lexi reads during a time of turmoil for her. Allie's life laid out on the diary page......more

Goodreads review by Sorcha on April 19, 2016

Wow! Wow! Wow! I was intrigued when I picked up 'Where Dragonflies Hover', (WWI Nursing, crumbling old manors and romance are the perfect combination to me) but as I delved into the story that AnneMarie Brear created, I was captivated, enchanted and completely in love with the characters, story, set......more

Goodreads review by Ann on April 15, 2016

This book has two story lines connected by a diary. Allie is a nurse during World War I and falls in love with Danny, a married man who is a Captain in the British Army. She keeps a diary of their love and dies near the end of World War II. Lexi finds the diary when she tours the house in the hopes......more