Welcome to the September Book Club - We Will Meet Again.
Join me on social media for weekly questions and discussions about my latest novel, We Will Meet Again.
Here are the four questions I will be discussing in September.
We Will Meet Again honours the women of Newfoundland and Labrador who kept the home fires burning during the Second World War while the province lost a generation of men.
Was your family affected by WW1 or WW2?
Did your family lose a loved one?
Did you have a loved one come back ‘shell shocked?’
Do you know what 'shell shocked' is?
In the 1940s women could not open a bank account without the signature of a male relative. Without a bank account, she could not buy a house, rent, or buy a car. She even needed her husband’s permission to work. So, when a woman lost her husband in the war she was left to fight her own war at home.
That is having a ripple effect in our province to this day – because of ancestry tests, people are finding out that their parents are not their parents.
Do you know of anyone who found out through a DNA test that their adoption was the result of losing a father in WW1 or WW2?
How did the wars affect your family?
The idea for We Will Meet Again came to me when I was walking my dog in Bowring Park and stopped at the Fighting Newfoundlander statue. I asked myself – where is the female version of that? The statue to the women who fought the war from home.
Do you think there should be a monument for the women who kept the home fires burning?
Who spent hours working for the war effort – collecting clothes, knitting socks and mitts, writing letters?
Or for the women who lost their fathers, husbands, sons, uncles, brothers, and loved ones?
While cleaning out the cupboards Hadley’s granddaughter comes across a hidden box of love letters from her first love, a Newfoundlander who volunteered to serve in the British Royal Navy. It is only then her family discovers that he died during WWII and Hadley married his best friend.
As the story unfolds each woman reveals a secret that has paralyzed their life. They discover how each of them has nurtured a generational trauma and turned it into a family tradition until one of them turns it into a generational strength.
Have you ever dealt with a generational trauma?
Have you also passed it down like a family tradition?
How have you dealt with family secrets and generational trauma?
Do you have any questions or comments about the book? Let’s discuss it.
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We Will Meet Again is available at Indigo, Amazon Books, Flanker Press and https://www.helencescott.com/books
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