02541cam a2200457 i 4500 551459234 TxAuBib 20160513120000.0 160303t20162013||||||||d|||||||||||eng|u 2016010643 9781410490025 hardcover 1410490025 hardcover (OCoLC)943637106 TxAuBib rda Hay, Ashley. The railwayman's wife [large print] / Ashley Hay. Large print edition hardcover. Waterville, Maine : Thorndike Press, 2016. ©2013. 415 pages (large print) ; 23 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier "When Anikka Lachlan's husband, Mac, is killed in a railway accident, she is offered--and accepts--a job at the Railway Institute's library and searches there for some solace in her unexpectedly new life. But in Thirroul, in 1948, she's not the only person trying to chase dreams through books. There's Roy McKinnon, who found poetry in the mess of war, but who has now lost his words and his hope. There's Frank Draper, trapped by the guilt of those his medical treatment and care failed on their first day of freedom. All three struggle to find their own peace, and their own new story. But along with the firming of this triangle of friendship and a sense of lives inching towards renewal come other extremities--and misunderstandings. In the end, love and freedom can have unexpected ways of expressing themselves. The Railwayman's Wife explores the power of beginnings and endings, and how hard it can sometimes be to tell them apart. Most of all, it celebrates love in all its forms, and the beauty of discovering that loving someone can be as extraordinary as being loved yourself" -- publisher. 20160513. 1900-1999. Widows Fiction. Widows. Loss (Psychology) Fiction. Loss (Psychology.) Triangles (Interpersonal relations) Fiction. Triangles (Interpersonal relations.) Large type books. FICTION / Historical. Manners and customs. Romance fiction. Historical fiction. Fiction. Thirroul (N.S.W) Social life and customs 20th century Fiction. New South Wales Thirroul.