Our Days in the Sun (Cornish Chronicles)

“Once again Ann has brought her characters vividly to life in this beautiful part of Cornwall.” Caroline.

“Just love the way the characters evolve as the story unfolds.” Dorian Gaskin

For fans of Downton Abbey - Ann E Brockbank follows her sweeping novel The Glittering Sea with Our Days in the Sun - a passionate, sweeping tale set in Cornwall and Italy in 1919

July 1919. The Great War is over, so too, the Spanish flu pandemic, but hedger Lyndon FitzSimmons still battles hidden demons pulling him back into the muddy trenches at the western front. Hoping to rekindle his love with Jenna Blackwell, now a wealthy widow and renowned artist, he finds she is a far cry from the girl he first fell in love with, sketching in a meadow.
While the occupants of Bochym Manor pick up the threads of normal life, Mary Ellis, the assistant cook – widowed in horrific circumstances – sees no end to her grief. But the arrival of Gabriel Trelease to restore plasterwork at the manor – also grieving his wife and mother of his small son due to the pandemic – causes a stir within the Cornish community. None more so than with the ambitious Marianne Enys, a waitress at the Poldhu Tea Room. Once her sights are set on him, nothing and no one will get in her way.

From Cornwall to Italy, Our Days in the Sun – Book 6 in the Cornish Chronicles – the sequel to The Glittering Sea – is a moving story of love, loss, and hope for the families broken by war.