įor more information on our rating system, please, visit the Authors 4 Authors Publishing website.I love Graham’s background story, the writing was poetic and his relationships with his wife Estelle, Avie and George were beautiful. I usually don’t read stories about war but this story sucked me in. This title has been rated S appropriate for adults and contains: Praise for The War in Our Hearts: Liv Arnold, author of Law & Disorder: Beautifully crafted, we see Graham’s story from boyhood to present. Through a series of flashbacks, the reader comes to understand how Jamie became what he is and why Aveline means so. It centres on Jamie Graham, a Scottish army captain whose mind is beginning to fall apart, and Aveline Perrault, the teenage girl he finds on an abandoned farm near the front lines. She finds in him the father she never had, and with her love, he faces the pain from his own childhood.ĭiscover the depth of love and faith in the face of brutality and neglect as they learn to live while surviving World War I. The War in Our Hearts is a World War One era novel set in 1916 during the Battle of the Somme. Both of them broken and walled off from the cruel and cold world around them-made even crueler and colder by the Great War-the pair form an unlikely bond. In a farmhouse in Somme, Captain Jamie Graham is forever changed when he meets young Aveline Perrault. As she fights for his care, she takes solace in his journals and letters. Expecting to meet her beloved husband and bring their newly adopted daughter home to Scotland, she instead finds him gravely injured and unconscious in a casualty station. France, 1916: Estelle Graham faces a nightmare.
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