When he is healed enough to return to the battlefront, she wonders if she will see him again, alive.

While she attends to his wounds and he is convalescing, a special bond develops between them. She meets Jerry, a tunneller, a man from back home who is injured in battle. She is instantly likeable and we can easily see how she is well received on the war front saving lives. From the past timeline, we meet Adele, a wonderful, warm, kind nurse from Canada. Her curiosity is spurred on by what she finds, bringing many surprises and even healing to her own life. It sets her on a quest to unearth the history of these particular rumrunners who transported illegal booze across the Detroit River during Prohibition after the first world war. He drops in to where Cassie works with a sample bottle and a host of questions. The new owner, Matthew, has been doing renovations and discovers a cache of whiskey labelled Bailey’s Brothers’ Best concealed in the walls. They are intriguing and well created- starting with present day Cassie, a museum curator, who enjoys solving historical mysteries and is drawn into one from her old family home. Even though the modern timeline has a smaller space in this novel, the three chapters (plus Prologue and Epilogue that serve as vital book ends) are well placed like dramatic flicks of an artist’s brush adding the right amount of highlights and depth to the mystery as they help shine light on the big picture where past and present meet. This dual timeline novel is brimming with mystery, romance, action and family drama. I am passionate about historical fiction and once I was introduced to Genevieve’s Bluebird by Canadian author Natalie Jenner (who wrote The Jane Austen Society, and upcoming Bloomsbury Girls), I knew I would be captivated by this story set in my birth home of Canada. I forgot for a minute I was reading a book and not watching something! This proves this novel is very visual and would be pure delight on the screen. When I had to get up to tend to some food in the oven, I grabbed my TV remote to pause the button (as if I was watching a show).

The scenes are so vivid and memorable you forget you are reading a novel! In fact, I did something I have never done before.

The hours vanished while reading Bluebird. I became utterly lost in the enthralling characters, plot and setting to the point I could not put this story down. 📚 What a magnificent, heart-racing story! This is my first Genevieve Graham novel and I can see why everyone is raving about her writing. Review of Bluebird by Genevieve Graham Publisher Simon & Schuster CA Visit Genevieve Graham’s Website

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