A girl! Oh, turns out it was Neil’s idea. Just sold the British admiralty on the plans for a warship she designed. He has just snuck back to Halifax to find the one man who can clear his name. The orders of his commanding officer … his uncle … Penelope’s father, Geoffrey Wain. Killed in the war two years ago under a cloud of suspicion for failure to follow orders. Penelope Wain is longing for her love, who is also her cousin, Neil Macrae. You can read the novel on several different levels. The novel is set in Halifax in the days before and after the Halifax Explosion. Hugh MacLennan’s Barometer Rising came along. The Halifax Explosion was the largest human-made explosion before the atomic bombs were detonated in 1945. The explosion and resulting shockwave killed almost 2000 people, injured over 9000, destroyed 1500 buildings and left over 12000 buildings uninhabitable. Haligonians watched the fire from the shore, not realizing that the Mont Blanc was loaded with munitions. On the morning of 6 December 1917, the Mont Blanc (a French cargo ship) collided with the Imo (a Norwegian supply vessel) in the Narrows of the harbour. Trains arrived daily with troops and supplies for the war effort. Halifax Harbour in Nova Scotia was a busy port in WW1, a staging area for convoys of ships moving across the Atlantic.
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