Blue Moon for Bombers (eBook)

England, June 2007. In a hospital ward in the flooded English Midlands, an 85-year-old man is dying and finally coming apart.

Desmond served as a Lancaster bomb-aimer in World War Two. For sixty years he has carried the weight of that in silence, the night raids, the burning aircraft, the man he believes he killed. Now, in his final weeks, the memories are erupting in shouts and nightmares that his dutiful daughter Phyllida cannot understand and her blundering husband Barney cannot help with.

Back at Crab Apple Hall, Phyllida is hosting a Rest and Relaxation Retreat for paying guests while her father lies dying. Into her crumbling old farmhouse arrive two strangers: Matthew, a quietly clever researcher collecting testimonies from Bomber Command veterans, and Kanda, a radiant, impulsive healer who arrives with a massage table, a homeopathy kit, and an instant certainty that Matthew is her soulmate.

Marooned together by relentless rain, the four of them play Scrabble, give massages, stumble through flooded woods, and slowly begin to lower their guards, until the secrets Desmond has kept for a lifetime finally begin to surface, and an unexpected visitor reveals the truth that changes everything.

Warm, witty, deeply human, and quietly moving, Blue Moon for Bombers is a story about the long shadow of war, the weight of unspoken guilt, and the strange ways healing finds its way through. It ends with a vision at a Lancaster bomber that will stay with you long after the final page.

Can be read as a standalone or as the middle book in Jennifer Barraclough's trilogy with Carmen's Roses and The Windflower Vibration.