How can she restore their loving relationship? The Girl Who Disappeared is a moving love story about one woman's enduring resilience, a story full of quiet humour and surprising twists and turns.This was a great quick book that I fully enjoyed having the pleasure of reading. Emily worries that she might have a rival for his affections. The war changes Walter into an efficient army officer who demands to be obeyed. When Walter volunteers for the army, Emily and her son are evacuated to a rat infested cottage in a farming community near Hebden Bridge. Their air raid shelter is destroyed by a direct hit. The family experience rationing and the terror of bombing. Emily's actions will see her struggle to survive the subsequent devastation brought about by the war, as she and her four year old son are thrown into the midst of danger and death. She sees marriage as a partnership of equals and resolves to elope to escape such a male dominated society. Purilla has already fallen deeply in love with the handsome Earl – but how can she turn a marriage of convenience into one of true love? Show bookĮmily falls passionately in love with working class Walter, despite fierce opposition from her class conscious father. She is beautiful, demure and intelligent – in fact everything he ever wanted in a wife – so he persuades her to save him from Louise by marrying him. He motivation is clear – although penniless at the time, he has since suddenly inherited the title and estates after his uncle’s death in a train crash.Fleeing Louise and London for the safety of the countryside he breaks his collarbone in a carriage accident and is knocked unconscious.When he awakens he finds he is being nursed by a lovely country girl called Purilla. Man about town and something of a “ladies’ man” the new Earl of Rockbrook has given little thought to a liaison at Windsor Castle in which one of the Queen’s Ladies-in-Waiting, Lady Louise appears in his bedroom – so he is appalled when he learns that Louise’s mother expects him to marry her.
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