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The Chapel at the Edge of the World Kirsten Mckenzie

The Chapel at the Edge of the World By Kirsten Mckenzie

The Chapel at the Edge of the World by Kirsten Mckenzie


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The Chapel at the Edge of the World by Kirsten Mckenzie

Emilio and Rosa are childhood sweethearts, engaged to be married. But it is 1942 and the war has taken Emilio far from Italy, to a tiny Orkney island where he is a POW. Rosa must wait for him to return and help her mother run the family hotel on the shores of Lake Como, in Italy.

Feeling increasingly frustrated with his situation, Emilio is inspired by the idea of building a chapel on the barren island. The prisoners band together to create an extraordinary building out of little more than salvaged odds and ends and homemade paints. Whilst Emilio s chapel will remain long after the POW camp has been left to the sheep, will his love for Rosa survive the hardships of war and separation? For Rosa is no longer the girl that he left behind. She is being drawn further into the Italian resistance movement and closer to danger, as friendships and allegiances are ever complicated by the war.

Human perseverance and resilience are at the heart of this strong debut and the small Italian chapel remains, as it does in reality, as a symbol of these qualities.

The Chapel at the Edge of the World Reviews

If you only read one book this summer, though, make it The Chapel at the Edge of the World - Sunday Herald

About Kirsten Mckenzie

Kirsten McKenzie is 32 and lives in Pittenweem with her husband and two children. She recently completed an M Litt in creative writing at St Andrews University and has worked as a Scottish Government press officer, cleaner and postie. The Chapel at the Edge of the World is her first novel.

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GOR001829787
9781848542440
1848542445
The Chapel at the Edge of the World by Kirsten Mckenzie
Used - Good
Paperback
John Murray Press
20090709
320
N/A
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