The Guernsey Saga Box Set by Diana Bachmann (#1-3)
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Overview: 1940. An idyllic island is invaded. A close-knit family is separated.
The peaceful Channel Island of Guernsey is known for its beautiful beaches and relaxed lifestyle. But when the Second World War begins and this vulnerable territory of the British Empire is invaded by Germany, those who call Guernsey their home find their lives violently upturned.
The Gaudion family: Sarah, Greg and their young daughter, Suzanne, are no exception. Over three stirring novels, we follow their lives before, during and after the Nazi occupation of Guernsey. With poignancy and faithful detail to this little-known history, Diana Bachmann (herself a WW2 child evacuee of Guernsey) paints a vivid portrait of the family’s saga as they are successively torn apart and reunited.
Genre: Fiction > General Fiction/Classics
1. A Sound Like Thunder
Guernsey, 1940. War is raging across the rest of Europe, but the people of idyllic Guernsey are going about their daily lives. Even with the Third Reich steadily increasing in power, the island continues as normal, blissfully unaffected by Nazi expansion.
Sarah and Greg and their young daughter, Suzanne, are the perfect family, spending their days playing tennis together and enjoying picnics on the beach. But when the evil spreading across the continent finally – and unexpectedly – reaches the Channel Islands, their lives implode before their eyes.
With their beloved island about to be occupied by German forces, it is arranged for Suzanne to be evacuated to England and the family is torn apart. Life is almost unbearable for Sarah and Greg without their only child, and it only worsens as food becomes scarce and crime rates soar. Forced to watch the home they’d loved disintegrate, how much longer can they survive?
2. An Elusive Freedom
Guernsey 1945. Home at last. For fifteen-year-old Suzanne Gaudion the years of waiting, longing and dreaming of this moment are finally ended. But never during those years had she dreamt that home was so beautiful. The lovely old town of St Peter Port glows pink in the early morning sun as the ship returning evacuees from the British mainland draws into the harbour.
Suzanne had been evacuated with her school only a few days before the island was occupied by the Germans. Now, after five long years adrift among strangers, she is returning to her homeland, and the love and security of her family.
Except might they not too, after five years separation, seem like strangers to one another? After all, Suzanne had left Guernsey a child, but was returning as a young woman. And she was returning to parents who had been forced to watch their home transformed from a virtual island-idyll into a land of repression and hardship during the occupation. Would Greg and Sarah Gaudion be the same loving care-free people of Suzanne’s childhood memories? She is about to find out . . .
3. Winds of Change
The Second World War is over and the family have returned to Guernsey.
Suzanne Martel is now happily married to architect Stephen, and together they are busy bringing up Sue’s three teenage children, and their own small son Bobbie in their Edwardian home, La Rocquette de Bas, on the peaceful Channel Island.
Each child presents a unique challenge to Sue and Stephen. Roddy, their eldest, is a puzzle to his parents: with no girls, no friends, he studies all the time. Then there’s Stephanie who, they hope, is just going through a phase – but in the meantime, how do they live with a teenager whose main interests are loud music, boys and outrageous clothes? Even Debbie, a gifted tennis player, is refusing to go to university or take her game seriously, preferring to stay on the island with her beloved Justin, whose lack of any respectable career ambitions makes him a less than ideal prospect for her.
The third generation of Martels and Gaudions is growing up fast, but will Sue’s concept of family unity survive the changing social, moral and family values of the modern world?
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