Bøker av Courtney Ellis

In this meditation on birding as a practice of hope, Courtney Ellis weaves together stories from her own life, including the death of her grandfather, with reflections on birds of many kinds. By "looking up to the birds," Ellis found the beauty of these creatures calling her out of her darkness into the light and hope of God's promises.

Connected through time by a shared English countryside home, a nurse looking to escape her recent problems tries to piece together her beloved grandmother's tangled history in the new historical novel from the acclaimed author of At Summer's End.England, 2019: Audrey Collins knew only one thing about her beloved grandmother Emilie's history: she was born into nobility. When she inherits Emilie's home in North Yorkshire, Audrey arrives expecting a sprawling country estate fit for lords and ladies but instead finds an abandoned stone cottage perfectly preserved as her grandmother left it when she fled the country in 1941, ration book and all.France, 1915: Lady Emile Dawes is working as a nurse on the Western Front, grateful to have escaped the restraints of her tumultuous home life. The independence she fought hard to earn is jeopardized when a familiar man shows up in one of her hospital beds, and she realizes she can't escape her past until she faces it.A hundred years apart, Audrey and Emilie each struggle to find purpose, love, and a place to call home in this harrowing family saga celebrating the courage of underestimated women-and the power a secret can hold across generations.Story Locale: North Yorkshire, England and the Western Front, France

When an ambitious female artist accepts an unexpected commission at a powerful earl's country estate in 1920s England, she finds his war-torn family crumbling under the weight of long-kept secrets. From debut author Courtney Ellis comes a captivating novel about finding the courage to heal after the ravages of war.Alberta Preston accepts the commission of a lifetime when she receives an invitation from the Earl of Wakeford to spend a summer painting at His Lordship's country home, Castle Braemore. Bertie imagines her residence at the prodigious estate will finally enable her to embark on a professional career and prove her worth as an artist, regardless of her gender.Upon her arrival, however, Bertie finds the opulent Braemore and its inhabitants diminished by the Great War. The earl has been living in isolation since returning from the trenches, locked away in his rooms and hiding battle scars behind a prosthetic mask. While his younger siblings eagerly welcome Bertie into their world, she soon sees chips in that world's gilded facade. As she and the earl develop an unexpected bond, Bertie becomes deeply entangled in the pain and secrets she discovers hidden within Castle Braemore and the hearts of its residents.Threaded with hope, love, and loss, At Summer's End delivers a portrait of a noble family-and a world-changed forever by the war to end all wars.Story Locale: 1920s England