Alix Rickloff – författare

This incredible debut historical novel—in the tradition of Beatriz Williams and Jennifer Robson—tells the fascinating story of a young mother who flees her home on the rocky cliffs of Cornwall and the daughter who finds her way back, seeking answers.

Cornwall, 1940. Back in England after the harrowing evacuation at Dunkirk, WWII Red Cross nurse Anna Trenowyth is shocked to learn her adoptive parents Graham and Prue Handley have been killed in an air raid. She desperately needs their advice as she’s been assigned to the military hospital that has set up camp inside her biological mother’s childhood home—Nanreath Hall. Anna was just six-years-old when her mother, Lady Katherine Trenowyth, died. All she has left are vague memories that tease her with clues she can’t unravel. Anna’s assignment to Nanreath Hall could be the chance for her to finally become acquainted with the family she’s never known—and to unbury the truth and secrets surrounding her past.

Cornwall, 1913. In the luxury of pre-WWI England, Lady Katherine Trenowyth is expected to do nothing more than make a smart marriage and have a respectable life. When Simon Halliday, a bohemian painter, enters her world, Katherine begins to question the future that was so carefully laid out for her. Her choices begin to lead her away from the stability of her home and family toward a wild existence of life, art, and love. But as everything begins to fall apart, Katherine finds herself destitute and alone.

As Anna is drawn into her newfound family’s lives and their tangled loyalties, she discovers herself at the center of old heartbreaks and unbearable tragedies, leaving her to decide if the secrets of the past are too dangerous to unearth…and if the family she’s discovered is one she can keep.

From the author of Secrets of Nanreath Hall comes this gripping, beautifully written historical fiction novel set during World War II—the unforgettable story of a young woman who must leave Singapore and forge a new life in England.

On the eve of Pearl Harbor, impetuous and overindulged, Lucy Stanhope, the granddaughter of an earl, is living a life of pampered luxury in Singapore until one reckless act will change her life forever. Exiled to England to stay with an aunt she barely remembers, Lucy never dreamed that she would be one of the last people to escape Singapore before war engulfs the entire island, and that her parents would disappear in the devastating aftermath. Now grief stricken and all alone, she must cope with the realities of a grim, battle-weary England.Then she meets Bill, a young evacuee sent to the country to escape the Blitz, and in a moment of weakness, Lucy agrees to help him find his mother in London. The unlikely runaways take off on a seemingly simple journey across the country, but her world becomes even more complicated when she is reunited with an invalided soldier she knew in Singapore.

Now Lucy will be forced to finally confront the choices she has made if she ever hopes to have the future she yearns for.

A gripping and compelling dual timeline novel about three women who joined the Navy during WWI to become yeomanettes and the impact their choices have on one of their descendants in 1968.

1918 - America is at war with Germany, and, for the first time in history, the US Navy has allowed women to join up alongside the men. Ten thousand of them rush to do their part. German-American Marjory Kunwald enlists in the Navy to prove her patriotism. Suffragette Blanche Lawrence to prove that women are the equal of men. And shy preacher’s daughter Viv Weston in a desperate attempt to hide from the police. 

Even as the US military pours into France and the war heats up, the three yeomanettes find friendship and sisterhood within the Navy. But all their plans for the future are thrown into chaos when Viv’s dark past finally catches up with her.

1968 - Newly divorced and reeling from a personal tragedy, Peggy Whitby unexpectedly inherits her estranged great-aunt Blanche’s beach cottage outside Norfolk Virginia. But her fragile peace is rattled when she begins to receive mysterious postcards dated from 1918 when Blanche served as a Navy yeomanette. 

Curious to learn more about her mysterious aunt and uncover the truth behind the cryptic messages, Peggy is drawn deeper into the lives of the three young Navy girls. But her digging uncovers more than she bargains for, and, as past and present collide, Peggy must decide if finding out about her aunt is worth the risk of losing herself.

From the author of Secrets of Nanreath Hall comes this gripping, beautifully written historical fiction novel set during World War II—the unforgettable story of a young woman who must leave Singapore and forge a new life in England.

On the eve of Pearl Harbor, impetuous and overindulged, Lucy Stanhope, the granddaughter of an earl, is living a life of pampered luxury in Singapore until one reckless act will change her life forever. Exiled to England to stay with an aunt she barely remembers, Lucy never dreamed that she would be one of the last people to escape Singapore before war engulfs the entire island, and that her parents would disappear in the devastating aftermath. Now grief stricken and all alone, she must cope with the realities of a grim, battle-weary England.Then she meets Bill, a young evacuee sent to the country to escape the Blitz, and in a moment of weakness, Lucy agrees to help him find his mother in London. The unlikely runaways take off on a seemingly simple journey across the country, but her world becomes even more complicated when she is reunited with an invalided soldier she knew in Singapore.

Now Lucy will be forced to finally confront the choices she has made if she ever hopes to have the future she yearns for.

En mor och en dotter har skiljts åt. På Nanreath Hall flätas deras öden samman. Sjuksköterskan Anna Trenowyth var bara sex år när hennes biologiska mor gick bort, och minnena av lady Katherine Trenowyth har bleknat. När hon mitt under andra världskriget blir stationerad på militärsjukhuset på Nanreath Hall, det gods där hennes mamma växte upp, ser hon sin chans att komma närmare den familj hon aldrig haft någon relation till.Snart finner hon sig indragen i släkten Trenowyths snåriga lojaliteter, hemligheter och tragedier. När svaren hon sökt efter så länge äntligen kommer i ljuset är de långt mer omskakande än hon kunnat föreställa sig.En historia om kärlek, svek och familjehemligheter mitt under brinnande världskrig.---Alix Rickloff bor i Maryland i USA med man och tre barn. Som sina stora inspirationskällor nämner hon Jane Austen och J.R.R. Tolkien. Dimmornas hus är hennes första historiska roman. Alix Rickloff är även känd under författarnamnet Alexa Egan. 

Målet finns där man minst anar.Lucy Stanhope lever ett bekymmerslöst liv bland Singapores societet. Men när andra världskriget kommer allt närmare tvingas hon bryta upp och resa till sin mosters gods i England.Kontrasten är total. Landet hon anländer till är grått och kallt och har härjats hårt av kriget. Alla är främlingar för henne, även hennes moster. Så när Lucy träffar Billy, en evakuerad pojke som rymt för att söka upp sin mamma i London, erbjuder hon sig att följa honom.I London finns en chans för Lucy att börja på nytt och uppfylla sina drömmar. Men resan dit blir inte som hon tänkt. Snart tvingas hon omvärdera alt hon tidigare trott på, och  inse att drömmen kanske finns närmare än hon anar …

En mor och en dotter har skiljts åt. På Nanreath Hall flätas deras öden samman.

Sjuksköterskan Anna Trenowyth var bara sex år när hennes biologiska mor gick bort, och minnena av lady Katherine Trenowyth har bleknat. När hon mitt under andra världskriget blir stationerad på militärsjukhuset på Nanreath Hall, det gods där hennes mamma växte upp, ser hon sin chans att komma närmare den familj hon aldrig haft någon relation till.

Snart finner hon sig indragen i släkten Trenowyths snåriga lojaliteter, hemligheter och tragedier. När svaren hon sökt efter så länge äntligen kommer i ljuset är de långt mer omskakande än hon kunnat föreställa sig.

En historia om kärlek, svek och familjehemligheter mitt under brinnande världskrig.

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Alix Rickloff bor i Maryland i USA med man och tre barn. Som sina stora inspirationskällor nämner hon Jane Austen och J.R.R. Tolkien. Dimmornas hus är hennes första historiska roman. Alix Rickloff är även känd under författarnamnet Alexa Egan.