White feathers
By: Susan Lanigan
Publisher: Brandon
Published: 2014
Place of publication: Dublin, Ireland
Language: eng
Number of pages: 425
ISBN-13: 9781847176394
Subjects: World War, 1914-1918; Fiction; Conscientious objection; Man-woman relationships
Description: Eva Downey jumps at the chance to attend finishing school, especially as she is about to be pushed into marriage by her overbearing stepmother. There she finds kinship and, eventually, love. But the man she loves refuses to enlist when war breaks out in 1914, and her family forces her to give him a white feather of cowardice - an act of betrayal with devastating consequences.