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From one crazy period in history to another.
Whisked by some unseen force from the Covid-19 ridden world of 2020 in Australia, to an equally horrific time in the past, carer Chloe Simpson finds herself in North London during the Blitz of 1940. Could be that Chloe became too immersed in the stories related to her by Minnie, a woman in the Australian nursing home where she cares for elderly people? Stories about the dreadful days and nights endured during the Blitz.
Engrossed in the stories surrounding photographs in 98-year-old Minnie Clacton’s cherished album, back in time Chloe meets up with the young Minnie plus her own Great Great Grandmother Aggie.
In the midst of an air raid, Chloe is discovered, wet and confused, by a man and his dog. A man and his canine companion who coincidentally appeared prominently in the photo album alongside the young Minnie and Aggie. Did Chloe simply answer the call of Destiny?
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Last year when the fear of an epidemic began to take hold of the world—and in general, my part of the world being Australia, I began to compare the coming disaster with the many other disasters that have befallen our planet. Being an author, of course I began to work out ways of how to create a world where people were fighting to survive. Then the idea struck of what would a character do if she was whisked back in time from one crazy period in history to another.
My family lived through WW11 and as the youngest; I heard stories as I grew about the war years and how life was back then. Thus When Destiny Calls was born. Why not send my heroine back in time to when the Blitz was at its worst in Britain. My family lived in North London and that is where I spent my early years so knew the area well. My one and only remaining sister will be 99 this year, so was therefore about 18 in 1940, just like Minnie in my story.
Chloe my main character cares for the old Minnie in an Australian nursing home. Minnie’s one remaining treasure is a photo album, which contains all her memories of her years as a young woman during and after the war, so it was inevitable that Chloe, who listened to Minnie’s many stories of how they all coped back then, would land back there. Chloe meets up with all the characters from Minnie’s album, and specifically a man named Bill who owns a dog called Tiger. Was Chloe, by some strange quirk of Fate, called back in time to meet her destiny?
“Tricia writes an intensely intriguing time travel that has you reading page after page to unravel the mystery of how Chloe, who lives in Australia in 2020, ends up in war torn London in the 1940’s. It’s a history; a love story; a family saga with past and present so carefully entwined you can’t predict the ending.” Barbara Baldwin--author of Spinning Through Time.
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