The heart mender a story of second chances
(2010, original release: 2005)
Fiction
Large Type
Call Numbers:
LARGE TYPE/FICTION/ANDREWS,A
Availability
Details
PUBLISHED
Waterville, Me. : Thorndike Press, 2010
DESCRIPTION
361 pages ; 23 cm
ISBN/ISSN
9781410428530 (hardcover), 1410428532 (hardcover)
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES
Previously published as: Island of saints
In 1942 and 1943, German subs are dispatched to the Gulf of Mexico to sink U.S. vessels carrying goods and fuel. While taking a late - night walk, Helen Mason, widowed by the war, discovers the near - lifeless body of a German sailor. Enraged at the site of Josef Landermann's uniform, Helen is prepared to leave him to die when an unusual phrase, faintly uttered, changes her mind. In The Heart Mender, a small town must prepare itself for the worst the world has to offer, and Josef and Helen must reconcile their pasts to create a future