The Road to Nowhere
Isa's Journey, Book 2
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Jenny Myers
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From the author of Follow the Dove and The Broken Horizon
For Isa and Davie Reid, life has led them and their children away from their beloved Scotland to an equally difficult life in the weather-scarred, dusty, Canadian prairies of the early 1900s. Eking out an existence where the land will not produce, surviving when all else seems to challenge mere survival, Isa weathers the elements and shoulders the responsibilities, managing to maintain a homestead that her parents had started, but that left them almost destitute and destroyed their health, with very little help from the homesick Davie.
With the onset of WW1, Davie volunteers to fight.
Isa soldiers on until there is nothing left on the homestead to sustain her. Where will her path lead her next?
Her friend and neighbour, Sarah, escaped an unwanted pregnancy to marry a man twice her age, only to discover another relationship she did not expect. She runs away from the arranged marriage to nurse the wounded during World War I, only to return to the man she was forced to marry years earlier to forge a different relationship. Where will Sarah's path lead her next?
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- Siobhan D
- 12-01-24
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Loved the narration of Jenny Myers, who brings out the angst, characters, story and makes you feel for the characters.
We follow family members from Orkney Island in Scotland to new beginnings in Canada. Through to the WW1 and it horrors.
Isa and Davie with their two children leave their home in Scotland to a new life in Canada. Isa adapts well to the harsh conditions of the Alberta prairie, but her husband wants to move on and explore the lakes and rivers of the vast Canadian territory.
The strength of Sarah. who was raped in Liverpool, to find herself shipped off to Canada to marry a man three times her age. We see her become a courageous woman, who eventually breaks free of her shackles.
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- John Marsden
- 23-01-24
Road to Nowhere.
A fascinating story which draws the listener in to it's folds. A young family move from the Scottish Islands to make a new life in Canada on the old homestead where Isa was born. Weather and circumstances beyond their control make this an uphill struggle which makes the listener root for them even more. Jenny Myers narration is spot on for this story and makes an already good book even better. Highly recommended.
I was kindly given a copy of the book by the narrator and leave this honest review.
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- cad16
- 20-02-24
excellent 3rd book of series
I loved the story continuing the families from Raumsey series. The book was written very well leaves me wanting to know more of the story.
The only thing that wasn't quite right was the accents in the narrating. Although read well, i felt it didn't have the same upbeat pace that Heather had in the first 2 books. I can understand why, as there were Canadian, Irish, Scottish & Liverpudlian accents to be done in this book but i felt they all rolled into one and none of them sounded Scottish like Heather did in hers. It was very difficult to distinguish between characters at times and i didn't have the same feeling of wanting to read it every minute i had, with the first 2 books.
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