Waterloo Station

By Emily Grayson

Book Overview

Emily Grayson, author of The Gazebo , weaves the story of a passionate love affair ignited at Oxford University in 1938ly to see the lovers torn apart by WWII. England. Summer, 1938. An adventurous and beautiful young American woman arrives at Oxford University, never expecting the ways that her lifed the entire worldll soon change. When Maude Latham falls in love with her married literature tutor, Stephen Kendall, she learns that the Romantic poets had it right: love is eternal. But after Stephen joins the Royal Navy and disappears, and Maude finds herself living through the war years as a trauma nurse in a hospital, she has to question everything she's been taught about both Stephen and love itself. In her latest novel, Grayson enters new territory, following two lovers through a dramatic period in history, and through a passion that is timeless.

• Format: Mass Market Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0060013982
• ISBN13: 9780060013981
• Release Date: April 2004
• Publisher: HarperTorch
• Length: 298 Pages
• Weight: 0.36 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 4.2" x 6.8"

Customer Reviews

Romantic

A nice love story and a worthwhile read. It's short, touching, romantic, and well written.

Romantic Read

The war looms over Europe in 1938 but Maude Latham, an adventurous American studying at Oxford, refuses to return home. Maude has unexpectedly fallen in love with her handsome, very married, tutor. When war explodes, he enlists and Maude begins a new life as a nurse. She changes, discovers more about herself and about the reality of love. The twists, turns, highs and lows of this love story will hold you captive from first word through to the last.Beverly J Scott author of Righteous Revenge and Ruth Fever

Would make a good Hallmark movie...

While this story is predictable it is a nice, short read.Carrie's grandmother, Maude, tells of her own experience with love while in England at university in 1938. Story begins in the present and goes to a flashback. Lush and sweeping - this would be a good Hallmark movie!This was my first Grayson read so I can't compare it to her others but it was a touch sappy.

Get your tissues ready!

Waterloo Staion is a wonderful story about Maude, a young girl of only 18, who goes off to Oxford University in 1938 just before the war with Germany. Once there she falls in love and has an affair with her married literary tutor Stephen Kendall but this relationship was not meant to last. Stephen joined the Royal Navy and Maude became a nurse and since they were not allowed to have any contact with each other a terrible twist in fate occurred that would change their lives forever. Waterloo Station is a compelling love story set in an unforgettable time period. I have read all of Emily Grayson books and this one is the best so far. Treat yourself to this little gem today.

WW II backdrop to a delightful romantic tale

In 1938, young American Maude Latham leaves her home in Longwood, New York to attend classes at prestigious Oxford University. As Maude adapts to life in England, she realizes that her tutors treat her as a second class citizen or worse because of her gender. That changes when twenty-seven year Stephen Kendall replaces an ailing professor as Maude's tutor on the romantic poets.As they go over in depth the works of a lesser-known poet, A.L. Slayton, Maude and Stephen fall deeply in love. However, he is married so though they enjoy each other's company nothing in the long run will come of it. When the Battle of France ends and the Battle of Britain begins, Stephen joins the military while Maude becomes a nurse. Separated by the war, chances of this couple deeply in love with one another ever attaining a permanent relationship seems nil, but then again both are big fans of the Age of Romanticism.WATERLOO STATION is an old fashion love story that uses WW II as a backdrop to a delightful romantic tale. The lead couple is a charming duo whom obviously belongs together, but chances seem remote that they will. The story line is character driven with limited action; although the war impedes on life, in this novel it serves to bring out the qualities of the cast. Fans of a fervent love story will cherish Emily Grayson's moving tale.Harriet Klausner