The Exile`s Daughter

By John Wheatley

She fled Poland as a child. She thought Anglesey would keep her safe. She was wrong.

When Lauren Bucievski and her father take flight from Poland during the 1905 revolution, the ten-year-old girl has little understanding of who her father's enemies are. All she knows is that they must run and keep running. Seven years later, Lauren is living quietly in Church Bay on the remote west coast of Anglesey isolated, watchful, and still carrying the weight of a past she doesn't understand.

Into her cautious, lonely world there arrives from Poland, the charismatic and possibly dangerous Stefan. Into her life also there walks Jimmy Jilkes likeable, warm, and full of easy laughter, a travelling salesman who begins to fall for her.

The outbreak of war in 1914 becomes the defining factor in how each of their destinies will unfold.

The Exile's Daughter is a novel about love, betrayal, and the quiet devastation of choices made in isolation. Moving between the windswept loneliness of rural Wales and the carnage of the Great War, John Wheatley reminds us that history doesn't just happen to nations. It happens to people. To a girl standing at the edge of the sea. To a good man walking into a war he never wanted. To lives shaped and broken by forces far beyond their control.

Fans of Birdsong, The Alice Network, and Suite Fran aise won't want to miss this.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1480016349
• ISBN13: 9781480016347
• Release Date: November 2012
• Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
• Length: 214 Pages
• Weight: 0.64 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"