This is an original paperback, there is no hardback. A glorious rich, multi-generational, family saga set in 70’s Singapore and present day New Zealand. Full of mystery, tragedy, incident and drama, it is good, old-fashioned storytelling at its best.
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About The Hour Before Dawn
Singapore in the 1970s. A handsome army officer falls in love with the young daughter of his captain. Although she is determined to become a ballerina, Fleur falls deeply for David and abandons her aspirations to become an army wife and mother. After their first blissfully happy years together, tragedy strikes and Fleur is left widowed with her young twin daughters, Nikki and Saffie.
Singapore in the 1970s. A handsome army officer falls in love with the young daughter of his captain. Although she is determined to become a ballerina, Fleur falls deeply for David and abandons her aspirations to become an army wife and mother. After their first blissfully happy years together, tragedy strikes and Fleur is left widowed with her young twin daughters, Nikki and Saffie.
Grief-stricken, she prepares to take her daughters back to England – and then one of them mysteriously vanishes, without a trace.
New Zealand, present day. Nikki Montrose, pregnant, is still haunted by the disappearance of her twin sister. Unable to reconcile with her mother, the ghosts of the past haunt her dreams. Fleur’s impending visit forces her to confront her fears. Then when her mother goes missing en route, Nikki must journey to Singapore and attempt a reconciliation. But what they discover back in Port Dickson will send shockwaves through the entire family.
Singapore in the 1970s. A handsome army officer falls in love with the young daughter of his captain.
The Hour Before Dawn features in the following genres: Family Drama, eBooks of the Month, Fiction, Recommendations
Paperback (b Format). Not Available.
The Hour Before Dawn was written by Sara MacDonald and published by Harpercollins Publishers
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