We learn more about the brothers and Adele along with her as she does her research, and I enjoyed seeing the past from her point of view. In between the history and romance, we also meet Cassie, a museum curator who begins to dig into the Baileys’ history when bottles of their whisky are found during a renovation. However, despite their best and brilliant efforts, their competition is obsessive when it comes to running the Bailey brothers out of business. But Jerry is confident they can work everything out and he and his brother continue their business, which is quite lucrative due to the quality of their whisky. Unfortunately, their reunion is at the expense of an already evil competitor and the danger in their smuggling gets exponentially higher.

But the day does come when he spots familiar blonde hair and the woman who has owned his heart since the day they met. Jerry keeps an eye out for Adele, since they are from the same area, but after a few years he gives up when she never materializes, making him wonder if she made it home from the war. Taking over their father’s still, they manufacture Bailey Brothers Best whisky to enter the rumrunning race that is so prevalent during Canada’s and the US’s prohibition years.

It’s not the celebration they’d imagined, however, when they learn their parents died during the Spanish Flu. Once he’s healed – his injury is not life-threatening – he’s sent back to tunnel again, and the two lose touch, despite their agreeing to meet up after the war is over – and if they survive.īoth Jerry and John do survive and head home to begin life again. Adele is proud to serve in Belgium, and when Jerry and his brother John come to her station, her connection to Jerry is immediate. Then there’s those men who don’t survive, leaving a hole in the nurses’ hearts, even though they try not to let that happen so they can continue to do their duty. Bluebird is her seventh novel in which she takes special points of Canadian history and weaves her stories of unforgettable characters with tragic events and gut-wrenching tidbits that she diligently researches to give her readers the best of herself.īoth Jerry and Adele are serving in World War I when Jerry is injured and sent to the station where Adele and other women nurses assist in healing soldiers the best they can, either to get them on their way home or back to the front. Ten years of beautifully written historical romance that began in Scotland but that eventually found their way home in her native Canada. It’s been ten years since I discovered Genevieve Graham.

Historical Romance published by Simon & Schuster 5 Apr 22 Sandy M’s review of Bluebird by Genevieve Graham

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