My Beautiful Mistake
In 1943 young nurses Kittie and Nora join the Canadian Army hoping to serve overseas. Sent instead to a POW camp in northern Ontario, Kittie discovers her best friend is implicated in a possible spy ring. Terrified of exposure and infatuated with Nora, Kittie will do anything, even succumbing to blackmail, to protect her, hoping it will all be forgotten after war’s end. But in post-war Toronto, the web of deceit tightens. Nora grows desperate to recapture the love of her returning soldier while Kittie works to keep secret the deepening involvement of Nora’s family in the spy ring. A bill of reckoning is due and the two women’s obsessions ultimately lead to a fatal conclusion that changes their lives and binds them together forever.
This book has been a work of love for several years and is based in part on the true story of my mother Ann who served in the Royal Canadian Medical Corps. Her story and those of the young men and women who served with her at POW Camp 23 were the seeds that became this work of historical fiction.
I’m now working to see it published.
This book has been a work of love for several years and is based in part on the true story of my mother Ann who served in the Royal Canadian Medical Corps. Her story and those of the young men and women who served with her at POW Camp 23 were the seeds that became this work of historical fiction.
I’m now working to see it published.
For a sneak peak at the opening, visit the October 2019 issue of Embark Literary Journal at embarkliteraryjournal.com/issues/issue-10-october-2019/
