All Things St. Jacques, NL

Life, love, and longing all flow through the pages of Evening Star: The Final Voyage of the Schooner Hesperia.  Open the covers to meet sea captain, Abe Skinner and Kate Emberley, his wife of thirty-one years, as they navigate through a crisis that brings the course of their lives into sharp focus.  Along the way, you’ll see them as young lovers who sit by the ocean and plan their wedding.  Experience the joy of owning the world as they sail into a life that will deliver three daughters, a son, and a grandchild whose presence fills their later years.

Travel back in time to experience life in a small outport on the coast of Newfoundland during World War I, a time when conflict on the world stage affects even the smallest of children, challenges relationships, and tests the limits of a couple’s bonds.  Witness the strength of extended family, the support of neighbours and the shared anguish of a community. Meet the crew of the Hesperia and the women in their lives as they meet one challenge after another.

See the relationship of Kate and Abe through each other’s eyes, their reflections and fears. Learn about their daughters, the men they married and the twists and turns their lives have taken as they move into worlds seemingly far away from that of their parents. Empathize with the love of a mother for her only son as she anxiously awaits his next letter and combs the newspapers seeking anything about the fate of her soldier fighting in France.

Kate was twenty-one when she married twenty-nine-year-old Abe.  Their life together emerges as the story unfolds to test the resolve of even the strongest relationship. In a world fraught with harsh realities, danger, unpredictable forces of nature and an event that changes the course of their lives forever, Kate finds enormous strength to carry on.

Evening Star: The Final Voyage of the Schooner Hesperia is published by Flanker Press Ltd, Paradise, NL sales@flankerpress.com . Pick up your copy at any Coles/Indigo bookstores and at various other locations throughout Newfoundland and Labrador, or online at those and other vendors such as Amazon.ca.