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Joni’s Scott’s Last Time Forever

Joni’s Scott’s Last Time Forever

Joni Scott’s Last Time Forever is the third and last novel in her ‘Time’ series of historical novels. It is a standalone novel and Joni’s fifth. Readers can first enjoy the prequel novel, Time Heal my Heart and its prequel, Whispers through Time. All three novels focus on a true story set in the first half of the Twentieth century. Joni sprinkled a true story with the magic dust of fiction and included some exciting subplots and characters. Tellwell Canada proudly publishes this book for the Australian author. Here is the link to the paperback print version of Last Time Forever. on Amazon. The print and e book format are also available on many other popular platforms.

What is Last Time Forever about?

The Great War is over, and the world celebrates. It is 1920. Childless young couple, Francesca and Sebastian leave Sydney, Australia for a second honeymoon in Europe. Paris is abuzz with writers and artists. They fall in love with the city and each other all over again.

But at the abbey of Mont-Saint-Michel in Normandy, the mood is very different. War has left its mark, and the orphanage shelters the tiny victims of its chaos. However, when Francesca and Sebastian meet little Pepe, the sun seems to shine again. They become family and travel on with Pepe to Spain to reunite with Sebastian’s parents. It is a summer to remember, the first they share together as a family.

The Sydney Harbour Bridge Construction

The focus of last Time forever shifts to the disruption and excitement in Sydney as the Harbour Bridge starts to extend across the beautiful harbour. From their vantage point of the North Shore, Francesca and Winnie’s families watch its progress. Winnie’s husband, Walter, is one of the fortunate men to get a job on the construction. He feels doubly fortunate once The Great Depression of the 1930s descends on the city. Life is hard and beggars and the homeless roam the streets. The bridge construction stands as a beacon of hope through these dark times. It is a symbol of hope. It will unite the city.

Sisters, Francesca and Winnie are main characters

Francesca and Winnie are sisters newly emigrated from London. The story focuses on their lives. Circumstances threaten their once close relationship. As Winnie has child after child, Francesca worries for a sister who does not have the same spirit she had before the war took its toll on her. Does Winnie have melancholia as Sebastian her doctor husband suspects?

Francesca, the younger sister is the narrator. As an older woman she starts her story in 1920’s just after World War One.

An intriguing French subplot in Last Time Forever

Francesca’s concern shifts to France and her French friend Lisbette. The shadow of war in Europe threatens to become world-wide. Hadn’t the Great War been enough to end all wars?

While the war rages in Europe and another threatens the Pacific, Lisbette becomes involved in the Resistance. Francesca has no idea of her friend’s secretive work.  It is a very dangerous time for the people of France.

The story centres on true events and is a family saga novel.

coverdraft-LastTimeForever-final Joni Scott is an Australian writer with four published novels. Last Time Forever is her fifth novel and third historical fiction based on true lives. Writing is a hobby she discovered while trying to make sense of her family history. Joni has her own website where she writes history and writing blog posts. joniscottauthor.com

 

 

 

 

Time Heal my Heart

Time Heal my Heart

Today was publication day and the birth of a new book into the vast global library. It’s the release of Whispers through Time Sequel entitled Time Heal my Heart by Joni Scott. This one has it all; love, loss, tragedy, war, peace, The Spanish Flu and best of all it is based on a true story! You can buy it on all the popular platforms like Amazon or through the publisher, Austin Macauley, London. 

It is the second historical fiction in my ‘Time’ series and can be read as it is or read after the first one, Whispers through Time. This historical novel continues the story of three young people who migrate to Australia from London in 1912 just after the sinking of the doomed liner, The Titanic. Soon war breaks out and their young lives are shattered by the consequences. This is the focus of the story in Time heal My Heart.

Time Heal my Heart is the sequel to Whispers through Time

Husbands, brothers and sons set off for the grand adventure of war, not realising its savagery. It was the war promised to be over by Christmas. Yet five years later it has involved the world and killed millions. Even in its swansong, the global conflict kills more as the deadly Spanish Flu spreads around the world with returning soldiers.

But the clock cannot be wound back. Time marches on taking the survivors with it into a brave new world of energy and promise. The Jazz age. But not everyone can forget, heal and move on. My protagonist, Winnie cannot. She has seen too much, lost too much. She cries, ‘Time heal my Heart!’ Hence the title.

A poignant Story of another time

War orphans, lovers, soldiers .. so many cannot move forward easily and forget or forgive the horrors of war. Read this poignant story and relive their lives with them. Step into the past and count your blessings perhaps that you were born in another time. Or do you want to recapture the romance, the urgency yet slower pace of the early Twentieth century? Life was ephemeral. Scarlet fever and infection could easily kill. There were no antibiotics, no safety nets in life.

And another place

Storm lashed monastery, Mont Saint Michel, is the scene of one of the sub plots in France. It is a place of mystery, violence and passion. Cut off from the war, it is also a place of refuge. The battle fields of France also feature as brother Gustave is sucked into a war of mud and danger. Then in Sydney, Australia, so far from the battlefronts, wives and families wait for news of the Gallipoli campaign. They knit socks, tend the returned soldiers and pray for their loved ones.

There’s more Time to come

I know this novel will tear at your heart. The story is of my own grandparents. But I must admit to adding sub plots and embellishing parts with fiction. However, it is based on true lives and war records. I hope you enjoy, Time Heal my Heart. If you do, you can go back and read Whispers through Time and look forward to part three, Last Time Forever, due out next year.

Stay tuned via my blog at joniscottauthor.com.

Joni Scott is an Australian author with four published novels: Whispers through Time, The Last Hotel Colour Comes to Tangles and her latest historical WWI drama, Time Heal my Heart. Joni has her own website; https://joniscottauthor.com.

 

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