Tomaree

By Debbie Robson

Tomaree is a World War II love story set in Australia. In 1942 Peggy Ashburn meets an American soldier, First Lieutenant Tom Lockwood, who is based at the Shoal Bay Country Club, Port Stephens. The attraction between them is immediate and intense and the couple enlist the help of Peggy's neighbour, Sarah Linden, to act as go-between.By 1972 when Peggy arrives back home from the US for the funeral of her estranged mother, her marriage is in tatters and she has a lot of soul-searching ahead of her. When she begins to go through her mother's house she discovers not only a letter that has been lost for thirty years but that her mother kept an incredible secret from her.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0646486292
• ISBN13: 9780646486291
• Release Date: March 2008
• Publisher: Trellech Press
• Length: 244 Pages
• Weight: 0.54 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.0" x 8.0"

Customer Reviews

A Gentle Story

Tomaree National Park exists. The setting of this book (in Australia), is real. Go to the website and see how beautiful it is! There is also a map of the area there. The story is told in alternating chapters portraying both the past (WWII) and the present (1970's). Chapters are short and easy to read ..... It was interesting to read about the area during the war, as there was an American base there.... and a town affected by it's presence. I found myself picturing the area and the characters came to life for me. I enjoyed the book and thoroughly recommend it.

Reflections

This story is told by a series of switch backs over thirty years of a woman's life. It begins and ends in Australia ,with Peggy meeting a young American serviceman who she falls in love with.We trace her life from the time of World War 11 until the 1970s. The person who gave me the book to read, had included maps and post cards which made it easy to picture Peggy running down to the pier to meet her loved one and walking about in the town. Kayjay33

Australian love story

Having to go back to her parent's house when her mother dies, Peggy finds several unexpected secrets while going through the things of her mother. The book goes back and forth between World War II when Peggy fell in love with a soldier and the 1970s when she was forced to go back home. This sensitive romantic drama offers insight into Newcastle and its surrounding regions during World War II and the early 1970s - I had the luck to be able to read the book with postcards and a map of the regions, easier to picture the places and giving it a special touch. Found this book to be a very nice read, special to read about how people can get to know themselves and other persons just by reliving the present through remembering past experiences. I liked it a lot, it gives more than you expect, not the most common love story you would expect. The description of places in Australia makes you want to visit there. Hoping one day to read more books of the same writer, it's a very promising book and nicely written!

This sleepy little town has seen some action

A really nice story from a gentler time, if I can call during WWII a gentler time. It reminds me of books I've read actually written in the early 20th century. The book has a slow, gentle rythm to it, much like the area it's set in, with occasional moments of fierceness. I enjoyed Peggy's discovery of her self and her family. The quiet drama of life happening during a time of great upheaval. Lovely!

Tomaree

This is the story of Peggy who meets and falls in love with an American serviceman stationed in Australia during the Second World War. At the war end, after they had married Peggy leaves for America to start a new life. Some thirty years later, Peggy returns to Australia for her mother's funeral. Sorting through her mother's belongings allows Peggy to cast her mind back over the years, as she relives the romance with her husband, her relationship with her late mother and the coming to terms with her relationships with them both, and how she deals with the journey of discovery and the secrets she finds along the way.