Review: Silver Street by Elizabeth Gill
In the late 1930s, Iris Black is feeling restless. She wants more out of life than to be a wife and mother, pandering to the whims and desires of an undeserving husband. Iris wants to experience life, excitement and unbridled passion. She yearns to break out of the constraints society imposes on her gender and on her social class and be her own woman. But Iris’s plans for self-discovery take an unexpected turn when she encounters Johnny Fenwick.
Johnny is one of Durham’s most eligible bachelors. Every girl in the district wants to get her hands on him – and his veritable fortune. But Johnny does not want to be seen as a cash prize for some social-climbing matchmaking mama and her guileless debutante daugher. He wants to share his life with a woman who is his equal in every way and when he meets Iris at a boring party, it finally looks like he’s finally found the woman he’s been searching for.
Iris and Johnny soon embark on a relationship which sees Iris breaking yet another taboo of the time and sleeping with Johnny. Although she is head over heels in love with him, Iris knows that she cannot marry him; not before she gets this feeling of her restlessness out of her system. When Johnny proposes to her and asks her to be his wife, Iris finds herself forced to break his heart and refuse his proposal.
Shocked, furious and devastated, Johnny, not prepared to wait for Iris forever, proposes to Nan Fielding, a shy and impoverished middle class girl who had fallen on hard times after her father’s death. Although Iris understands Johnny’s decision to marry someone else, she realizes that she cannot hang around Durham and watch Johnny build a life for himself with another woman. With the war looming, Iris decides to leave Durham behind and train as a nurse.
On the front line, Iris sees things she never thought she’d see and the headstrong young girl matures into an intelligent young woman who has never forgotten her first love. But on her return to Durham, Iris gets some shocking news. News that will change her life…forever!
Silver Street is an absolutely superb saga I just couldn’t put down! Wonderfully absorbing, immensely poignant and sublimely written, in Silver Street talented storyteller Elizabeth Gill deftly blends the subtle characterization of Joanna Trollope, the quiet passion of Audrey Howard and the skillful plotting of a true master as she takes her readers on an emotional journey of love and loss that will make them laugh and cry! Entrancing, enchanting and engrossing from start to finish, Silver Street is a heart wrenching and enthralling saga that is in a class of its own!
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Genre: historical ISBN: 978-0727865991 Page Count: 215 Pages Price: $ £18.99 Reviewer: Julie Bonello |
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