While this is good historical fiction, it is also a sweet love story with wonderful characters throughout. Adele has been working for a local doctor and sees all the injured men who come in having been hurt from “rumrunning.” When they meet again, Jerry has been manufacturing whiskey during the Prohibition years and is in a dangerous, but lucrative profession. When he recovers and is sent back to the front, she and Jerry lose touch for several years. Adele, a nurse employed with the Bluebird’s (as they were called due to the blue uniforms) meets Jerry Bailey, a tunneler who comes into the hospital after having been wounded in an explosion.Įven though Adele tries not to get too close to her patients, she and Jerry have a connection that she can’t ignore.

Pulled from the pages of history, Bluebird is a compelling, luminous novel about the strength of the human spirit and the power of love to call us home. But the city is in the grip of Prohibition, which brings exciting opportunities as well as new dangerous conflicts that threaten to destroy everything they have fought for. When they cross paths one day, they have a chance to start over. By war's end, both Jerry and Adele return home to Windsor, scarred by the horrors of what they endured overseas. In the midst of war, she's a welcome reminder of home, and when Jerry is sent back to the front, he can only hope that he'll see his bluebird again. As Jerry recovers, he forms a strong connection with Adele, who is from a place near his hometown of Windsor, along the Detroit River. After Jerry is badly wounded in an explosion, he finds himself in a Belgium field hospital under the care of Adele Savard, one of Canada's nursing sisters, nicknamed 'Bluebirds' for their blue gowns and white caps. 1918 Corporal Jeremiah Bailey of the 1st Canadian Tunnelling Company is tasked with planting mines in the tunnels beneath enemy trenches. So when a cache of whisky labeled Bailey Brothers' Best is unearthed during a local home renovation, Cassie hopes to find the answers she's been searching for about the legendary family of bootleggers. Present day Cassie Simmons, a museum curator, is enthusiastic about solving mysteries from the past, and she has a personal interest in the history of the rumrunners who ferried illegal booze across the Detroit River during Prohibition. A dazzling novel set during the Great War and postwar Prohibition about a young nurse, a soldier, and a family secret that binds them together for generations to come-from USA TODAY and repeat #1 bestselling author Genevieve Graham.

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