FEATURED AUTHOR - Alice K. Boatwright is the author of the Ellie Kent mysteries, which debuted with Under an English Heaven, winner of the 2016 Mystery and Mayhem Grand Prize for Best Mystery. The series continues with What Child Is This? and In the Life Ever After. Alice has also published other fiction, including Collateral Damage, three linked novellas about the Vietnam War era; Sea, Sky, Islands, a chapbook of stories set in Washington’s San Juan Islands; and Mrs. Potts Finds Thanksgiving, a holiday parable…
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Prior to that time, I spent a good many of my day at the Wilmington Public Library so I was an avid reader at a young age.
The remembrance of reading The English Orphans is still with me. I, of course, remember more of my emotions rather than the story line. On the other hand, it had to be good to have remained with me all of these years. I've looked from time to time for this book, The English Orphans, because the memory of it always brings my grandmother home to me. My grandmother (whose home I would end up living in until my marriage) arrived here from England in 1900. So the title was a draw from that aspect too. I think people (more females than male) both adolescents and adults would enjoy this book both from a historical perspective and as a good medicinal tear jerker tool.