The Loop
by Edmund Burry
176 pages· 2010
About
Fred Bartlett returns from the Great War a changed man, unemotional and detached from reality. Back home in Newfoundland, he lives with his brother’s family in Goose Cove, a small community that is now part of the town of Trinity. Fred works as a blacksmith in the Green Family Forge, where the demanding physical work allows him to keep his inner demons under control.
The Loop is a novel which intricately intertwines factual historical events with the Bartlett family’s story as seen through the lives of Fred and his nephew Billy with the First and Second World Wars as a dramatic background.
As a young boy growing up in Goose Cove, Billy Bartlett believes he has uncovered the compelling secret that haunts his uncle, but he can tell no one. Only many years later while serving overseas in the R.A.F. during the Second World War does Billy discover his uncle’s story, the woman he loved, and the true reason for the sadness that has consumed him....it just may be too late.
The Loop is an adventurous and dramatic story that will steal your heart from the beginning and hold you spellbound to the end.
The Loop is a novel which intricately intertwines factual historical events with the Bartlett family’s story as seen through the lives of Fred and his nephew Billy with the First and Second World Wars as a dramatic background.
As a young boy growing up in Goose Cove, Billy Bartlett believes he has uncovered the compelling secret that haunts his uncle, but he can tell no one. Only many years later while serving overseas in the R.A.F. during the Second World War does Billy discover his uncle’s story, the woman he loved, and the true reason for the sadness that has consumed him....it just may be too late.
The Loop is an adventurous and dramatic story that will steal your heart from the beginning and hold you spellbound to the end.
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