A Life Apart, (Paperback)

from Jenxy21

A Life Apart by L.Y. Marlow mixes history and drama with perfection. Marlow captures the heartache of longing and loss of a forbidden love. From the 1940's to present day we follow the lives of Morris Sullivan and Beatrice Dobbins as the fight society and self to find a place of belonging. Their ...

from erinclark

A Life Apart by L.Y. Marlow is a story of healing and forgiveness and how long it sometimes takes to get there. Morris Sullivan is a young man living in Boston during the years right before WWll. He meets a sweet shy girl, falls in love and of course she ends up pregnant and they are forced to ma...

from JudiRobben

I received this book over a month ago and have made multiple attempts to finish reading it. I love historical fiction novels but for some reason this book has not drawn me into the story line. There seems to be no depth to the characters, no emotion in the difficult circumstances the individuals ...

from MmeRose

This review is very late because I had a difficult time staying with the book. Having lived through the Civil Rights Movement, followed the 50th anniversary of the March On Washington coverage, and the coverage about veterans' difficulties from VietNam until now, this story just couldn't hold my ...

from momgee

This sounded so much better on paper than the actual execution of the story. It had the potential to be great. Unfortunately, it was not. In the first few chapters we are introduced to Morris, a sailor, serving in the Navy during the infamous attack on Pearl Harbor. He is saved by another sailor,...