Long way Home by Lynn Austin #Book Review #Historical Fiction #Tyndale House Publishers #Lynn Austin
MY THOUGHTS AND BOOK REVIEW This is a WW2 novel which is a warm and heavy read. Stories of two women are being told in a cozy manner, it's about Peggy in 1946 in New York and Gisela in 1938 to 1946 in Europe and elsewhere. Jimmy Barnett's father, Mr. Barnett owned a Veterinary clinic by side on Blue Fence Farms, Hudson valley, sixty some miles from New York city. Jimmy like his dad had been studying to be a veterinarian before that awful December day when the Japanese bombed the Pearl Harbor. Peggy Ann Serrano the girl who lived across the road from his clinic in the apartment above the auto-repair garage took veterinary rounds sometimes with Mr. B. Mr. Barnett had been a veterinarian in the Great War, back when they still used horses in the cavalry. Jimmy was a medic in this war and took care of soldiers, not horses. Jimmy arrived home from the war more than a month ago, and all that time he barely spoke to anyone. The Barnett's lived beside the veterinary clinic in a c...