title: Days of Grace: A Novel
author:  Catherine Hall 
description: Nora Lynch is at the end of her life, and she intends to die alone. When she takes in a young, unwed mother, however, her plan is interrupted, and she begins to relive the time she spent with the Rivers family during WWII. Among the many London children evacuated from the city during the Blitz, Nora landed in Kent, where Reverend Rivers, his wife, and daughter, Grace, gave her a life she never dreamed of and, in the end, never wanted. Hall's debut captures the stagnation of the Rivers family, hiding behind the seeming tranquility of their lives to shield themselves from painful memories. Even the war feels far away. Planes flying overhead are muffled by the stifling calm of the English countryside. When Nora falls for Grace, she is tormented by loving someone she can't have, and her descent into isolation and bitterness is intensely evoked. The prose, flitting between the present and wartime Kent, is as crisp, efficient, and quietly moving as Nora herself. Her attempt to find redemption and her struggle to forgive herself will engage readers to the end. --Courtney Jones
zlib_text: Grace
  
  by
  
  Audrey Harrison
  
  Published by Audrey Harrison
  
  Copyright 2015 Audrey Harrison
  
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  work.
  
  This novel is entirely a work of fiction. The names, characters and incidents
  portrayed in it are the work of the author’s imagination. Any resemblance to
  actual persons, living or dead, events or localities is entirely coincidental.
  
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  Chapter 1
  
  1819
  
  Four days! Four days in a carriage and four horses, and still they had not
  arrived at Sudworth Hall. Grace Johnson stared out the window of the coach
  listlessly. The coach was fine; one would expect nothing else from the Duke of
  Sudwort