Living on a sprawling English estate doesn’t change the fact that twenty-year-old Laura Elliott-Stratford feels homeless.
The year is 1920, and it has been six years since Laura’s beloved father passed away – since Laura’s mother married a British Earl and whisked Laura from her home in Virginia to the green expanses of Stratford. Lonely, rebellious, and bitterly resentful, Laura is especially vulnerable to the influence of two new people who enter her world: Graham, her stepfather’s handsome new accountant, and Sarah, the youngest daughter of one of Birmingham’s toughest families. Two sides of Laura are awakened, and they cannot peacefully coexist inside her. Laura is faced with the decision of choosing who she will be, and neither choice is without consequence.
Across the Formidable Sea follows one woman’s search for home and happiness against the vibrant backdrop of 1920’s England – a world whose priorities and values are shifting as quickly as Laura’s are. No matter the time or place, we are the masters of our own fate… for better or for worse.
The year is 1920, and it has been six years since Laura’s beloved father passed away – since Laura’s mother married a British Earl and whisked Laura from her home in Virginia to the green expanses of Stratford. Lonely, rebellious, and bitterly resentful, Laura is especially vulnerable to the influence of two new people who enter her world: Graham, her stepfather’s handsome new accountant, and Sarah, the youngest daughter of one of Birmingham’s toughest families. Two sides of Laura are awakened, and they cannot peacefully coexist inside her. Laura is faced with the decision of choosing who she will be, and neither choice is without consequence.
Across the Formidable Sea follows one woman’s search for home and happiness against the vibrant backdrop of 1920’s England – a world whose priorities and values are shifting as quickly as Laura’s are. No matter the time or place, we are the masters of our own fate… for better or for worse.
