It is 1885 and Cecil Sherbowe has everything he could ever want in life. He has led a privileged childhood, raised in a large estate nestled in the plains of the English countryside. He is in line to inherit his family’s property. That is if he can fulfill his father’s archaic wishes. Under the watchful eye of his cantankerous caretaker Ananias, Cecil is ordered to spend several months working in the poverty-stricken village of The Deverills. Intending to break him of his vanity and pride, instead, his months at The Deverills introduce Cecil to a new infatuation – a beautiful village woman named Natalie. When he is forced to choose between her and his freedom, Cecil spends years chasing after his lost love, from the Boer War of Africa to the speakeasies of 1920’s New York City. In order to reunite with the woman he loves, Cecil may have to lose everything along the way.
Erin Ritch is a writer and 8 to 5’er by day and an exhausted mother to a two-year-old by night. Always fascinated by storytelling in all its forms, Erin earned a degree in English Literature and studied Film at the Vancouver Film School, where her script “Neighborhood Watch” was chosen for production. Erin worked for several years in Film and Post Production in San Diego before moving to the Pacific Northwest to pursue a simpler life of less traffic and no sales tax. When she’s not taming her family’s fledgling farm located in rural Oregon, Erin shares her love of stories and adventures in Mommyland on her blog NoWyverns.com.
Erin is currently working on a variety of projects. She is editing three additional titles in her Quinn Family Adventures series, which she hopes to release in the near future. Earlier this year, Erin finished her Young Adult fantasy titled “Myth.” Erin has also started her next novel and plans to share details on its progress and development soon.
My Thoughts
I found Memories Wait Alone to be a very interesting story. It starts out with Cecil Sherbowe as an elderly man bemusing the fact that the past is gone and he is left alone with his memories. Not all of them good. With good looks, money and fame he was definitely on top of the world.
In 1885, in England, Cecil is a very young man, aged 17,told by his father that in order to inherit Sherbowe Estate, he needs to prove his worth by living as a villager in the village of The Deverills. He asks what happens if he doesn't go and is told that he will be disinherited. So thinking that this is a means of freedom, he goes.
While there he meets a girl named Natalie, he is instantly attracted to this aloof girl and uses all of his skills that he thinks he has when wooing the girls. A misspoken word in anger leaves him devasted and searching for her all of his life. He does very well in his life in the village and even comes to like it. When his time is over he goes back to Sherbowe Estate to find that all is not as he left it. He spends his entire life searching for what he lost and when he finds it, fate conspires against him and he loses all again.
The book ends with Cecil an old man in 1957 with shadows in his soul and truly finding that memories do indeed wait alone. Written with a sadness that kept me turning the pages hoping that there would be a happy ending, but we all know that life does not always give us what we want or desire.
I received a copy of this book for my honest thoughts.
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