Linda Gillard Books

"A century of secrets... Four women live in the shadow of the Trysting Tree. All have something to hide. 1916. A man without a memory walks away from the Somme battlefield, while a young woman grieves beneath the tree that will guard her secret for a hundred years. 2015. Ann de Freitas doesn't remember what she witnessed when she was five. The truth lies buried in the beech wood, forgotten for forty years. Can love unlock Ann's heart and mind? Connor Grenville is restoring the walled garden where his grandmother, Ivy used to play. Before her death, she tried to destroy the family archive. Who was Ivy trying to protect? And why? When a storm fells the Trysting Tree, revealing a century-old love hidden in its hollow heart, Ann and Connor begin to sift through the past in search of answers. What they discover changes everything. 'The story doesn't start here. I need to go back. Back to a time when the beech tree still stood, when I didn't know the truth about my family and Connor didn't know the truth about his. Right back to a time when the twentieth century was young and the beech still kept its secrets...'"--Publisher description.

Blind since birth, widowed in her twenties, now lonely in her forties, Marianne Fraser lives in Edinburgh in elegant, angry anonymity with her sister, Louisa, a successful novelist.Marianne's passionate nature finds expression in music, a love she shares with Keir, a man she encounters on her doorstep one winter's night. Keir makes no concession to her disability. He is abrupt to the point of rudeness, yet oddly kind.But can Marianne trust her feelings for this reclusive stranger who wants to take a blind woman to his island home on Skye, to "show" her the stars?...

A true story of God's love and faithfulness for the broken and abused. For years I wanted to write the story of the abuse that my father suffered at the hands of his father, but he was always a little concerned that he may offend some family members with the truth of his terrible story. Finally, at the age of 86 and with the encouragement of his living siblings, he told the whole story of how as a child, he had been broken physically, emotionally and mentally and how that abuse led him into a life of crime. He told of the miraculous way that he found Christ and how he had to serve prison time when he paid restitution. This story is truly amazing. God in his loving kindness can fix and restore, even a broken boy.

Wenn das zweite Glück ins Leben tritt Wenn sie klassische Musik hört, fühlt sie sich lebendig. Wenn sie den Regen auf ihrem Gesicht spürt, ist sie glücklich. Wenn sie an ihren verstorbenen Mann denkt, ist er nur noch eine Erinnerung. Die vierzigjährige Marianne ruht in sich selbst. Als die Schottin den geheimnisvollen Keir von der Isle of Skye kennenlernt, ist es mit der Ruhe vorbei. Seine Stimme, seine Worte zeigen ihr die Welt, wie sie sie nie gesehen hat. Sie ist blind, aber mit ihm kann sie sogar die Sterne sehen. Windverwehte Landschaften und eine zarte Liebe: ein gefühlvolles Debüt.