Diane Covington-Carter

Finding Gilbert: A Promise Fulfilled (eBook, ePUB)

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Produktbeschreibung

How do the unfulfilled dreams and promises of our parents shape our lives and our destinies?

During the Normandy Invasion in 1944, an American lieutenant took a French orphan boy Gilbert under his wing, making sure the boy had enough to eat and giving him attention and love. As the months passed and their bond deepened, he tried unsuccessfully to adopt the boy and bring him home to America.

Years later, the soldier's daughter grew up hearing her father's stories about his time in France and about the orphan Gilbert. During her childhood, the boy felt like an invisible brother, hovering in her consciousness, slightly out of focus.

Fifty years after the war and two years after her father's death, she found herself compelled to write about how his stories of his time in France had influenced her life.

As she journeyed to France to retrace her father's footsteps, would she be able to complete what he had left unfinished? Could she find his orphan and tell him that her father had never forgotten him?

In this true story about the power of love and kindness, Covington-Carter weaves a tale that spans seven decades, beginning and ending on the shores of Normandy. In it, she discovers the role that forgotten dreams play in guiding us towards our destinies.

This book is a testament to the importance of a father's love and how a caring father can change lives in ways that ripple down through the generations.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Diane Covington-Carter
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. Juni 2018
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780991044696
• Artikelnr.: 53017506

Autorenporträt

Diane Covington-Carter calls herself a "late-bloomer baby-boomer" since she has accomplished so many interesting things when most people are considered "over the hill."
In her late forties, she bought a run down apple farm in the foothills of the Sierras and took on restoring it and taking care of it, all on her own.
At age fifty, she moved to France for eight months to do her "Junior Year Abroad Thirty Years Late" and had a fabulous time.
At sixty she fell in love with the man of her dreams, and they now live together on the apple farm and also in New Zealand, when they are not traveling around the world to other exotic and interesting places. She has published four books, two of which are award-winning.

*GOLD AWARD:
In 2018, her third memoir, "Finding Gilbert, A Promise Fulfilled," won a Gold award from the Society of American Travel Writers Western Chapter. It tells the true story of how she found her father's beloved French orphan, Gilbert, from World War II. Though it was fifty years late, he did become her 'brother' and she is still close to four generations of his family.

The faculty at the University of Missouri School of Journalism, who judged the writing competition, had this to say about the book:
"This is a gripping travel memoir of how childhood stories of World War II turn into a quest. A lot of travel is driven by the quest for answersand this book fulfills that desire to find the truth in faraway places. This piece about a father's love and fulfilling a promise to a French war orphan is well done, and a recommended read."

*WILLA AWARD
Her first historical Middle Grade/Young Adult novel, "Beautiful Courage, A Young Woman's Journey West, 2019," was chosen as a finalist for a WILLA Award, 2020. The award, is named in honor of Pulitzer Prize winning author Willa Cather, one of America's foremost novelists, and honors the best in literature, featuring women's or girls' stories set in the West that are published each year. The judges are professional librarians, historians and university affiliated educators.

This tender, coming of age story is told through the letters and journal of a young girl bound for California in 1852.

*LOWELL THOMAS TRAVEL JOURNALISM AWARD, 2020
Covington-Carter has received many awards for her travel journalism, most recently a prestigious Lowell Thomas Travel Journalism award for an essay in the Los Angeles Times for the 75th anniversary...