by Terrie ToddPublish: Jan 26, 2016Historical FictionChristian Fiction
Book Overview
A Word Award winner.It’s 1939, and Canada is on the cusp of entering World War II. Seventeen-year-old farm girl Cornelia has been heartbroken since the day her mother died five years ago. As a new tragedy provides Cornelia still more reason to reject her parent’s faith, a mysterious visitor appears in her hour of desperation. ... Alone and carrying a heavy secret, she makes a desperate choice that will haunt her for years to come. Never telling a soul, Cornelia pours out the painful events of the war in her diary.Many decades later, Cornelia’s granddaughter, Benita, is in the midst of her own crisis, experiencing several losses in the same week, including the grandmother she adored. The resulting emotional and financial stress takes its toll on her and her husband, Ken, who is unemployed. On the brink of divorce, she discovers Cornelia’s diary. Now the secrets of her grandmother’s past will lead Benita on an unexpected journey of healing, reunion, and faith.read more
BIOGRAPHY Terrie Todd's debut novel, The Silver Suitcase (Waterfall Press 2016), won the 2017 Word Guild award for Historical Fiction. Her second, Maggie's War, released January 31, 2017, and her third, Bleak Landing, comes out August 15, 2017.She has published eight stories with Chicken Soup for the Soul, two full-length play... s with Eldridge Plays and Musicals, and for six years wrote a weekly faith and humor column for her hometown paper.
After 20 years leading a church drama team, Terrie now works part-time as an Administrative Assistant at City Hall. She lives with her husband, Jon, on the Canadian prairies where they raised three children and where her novels are set. Over the years, Terrie has pursued acting, vegan cooking, and playing the saxophone, all with mixed reviews. You can catch up with her latest escapades at www.terrietodd.blogspot.comread more
