Emily and Daisy
by Paul Yates
This title was previously available on NetGalley and is now archived.
Send NetGalley books directly to your Kindle or Kindle app
1
To read on a Kindle or Kindle app, please add kindle@netgalley.com as an approved email address to receive files in your Amazon account. Click here for step-by-step instructions.
2
Also find your Kindle email address within your Amazon account, and enter it here.
Pub Date 28 Nov 2021 | Archive Date 10 Mar 2022
Talking about this book? Use #EmilyandDaisy #NetGalley. More hashtag tips!
Description
This is a love story. A love story with a difference that lives across time and space and explores the ways in which the accidents of love can combine in the forging of a life.
Rural Devon, World War II. In her last year of school and living above the family shop, Daisy studies for her exams and keeps her journal. After he paints a watercolour portrait of her, she falls for James, a young army captain.
Paris, the end of the twentieth century. Emily lives comfortably with her father, having just left university and unsure of what comes next. Upon discovering Daisy’s portrait, she becomes enchanted by the young woman who seems to have inexplicably disappeared from her uncle’s life.
Campiston house in rural Sussex connects the two women. In her teens Emily spends her Summer vacations with her great uncle, but he never speaks of Daisy. Later, James wills the house to Emily who pursues the mystery of Daisy’s disappearance.
Their lives may have different trajectories, but something resonates with Emily as she delves deeper into the traces of Daisy’s world. Each revelation demands that Emily see herself and her world in new ways.
A Note From the Publisher
Available Editions
| EDITION | Ebook |
| ISBN | 9781800466319 |
| PRICE | £3.99 (GBP) |
| PAGES | 200 |
Featured Reviews
Robin P, Reviewer
When I started reading this novel I thought for a moment I had discovered a long lost manuscript by the great E.M. Forster, but Paul Yates soon asserted his literary rights with his own touch of class. The writing is elegant, beautiful, and full of perceptive moments of genius as the author explores the human condition in all its many forms and variations. The story was intriguing and engaging, and both women, separated by the passing of half a century, touched my heart, when they finally stepped forth out of the shadows to fulfill their destinies.
Sarah M, Reviewer
Emily and Daisy is a story about searching and finding. It’s not a mystery per se, but still is as the character of Emily tries to figure out who Daisy was to her recently passed relative. It revolves partly around a portrait that Daisy sat for in her youth that Emily’s dad just inherited.
We follow both women in two different timelines, with Daisy being in the 1940s and Emily in present day and how the actions of Daisy back then concerns Emily in the present.
I enjoyed this story, the language flowed well, and I was interested in what the characters were up continuously. It’s sort of both a slow and fast book at the same time which I found very interesting whilst reading. What I mean by that is that the book was fairly short but still managed to keep the pace down.
