Publisher's Synopsis
"We are a country of immigrants and every family has a story to tell." A MEMORY FOR MIRRY, a literary historical novel, is set on the Atlantic coast of America in the 20th Century. Thirty-three year old, Mirry McPherson has learned to accept her memory losses, apparently the result of an injury from an automobile accident in 1951 at nine-years old. However, in 1975, after years of having unexplained attacks, she is determined to find out what is making her so sick. Now pregnant with their second child, she and her lawyer husband, Gavin, and their two-year old daughter (Lizzie) return to the old lighthouse estate in the 'Village of Bellevue at Hallowed Sound', a port town on the Atlantic Ocean. Mirry has inherited the estate from her paternal great grandfather, Ivor MacIvor, a direct descendant of Bellevue's 'Founding Father', Donovan Angus MacIvor, a Scottish builder of lighthouses. Despite the locals advising them that 'Ivor's ghost haunts the old place' and that he had conspired with the Nazis during the war, they move forward with their plans to reconstruct the estate into a modern day 'Bed and Breakfast' Inn and Nautical Museum. Not long after arriving at the Lighthouse, Mirry becomes very ill, experiencing multiple unexplained blackouts and fainting spells. She remembers promising Ivor "never to forget," quoting the words of his Scottish family motto: "Numquam Obliviscar." However, as hard as Mirry tries, she can't remember what it was that Ivor had told her not to forget. As Gavin takes on his first case as the defense lawyer in a appeal trial of a man convicted of a murder in 1950, his investigations lead him back to Mirry.
The novel is appropriate for young adult and adult readers of all ages. It is the third stand-alone and non-sequential volume in the author's collection of books launched in 2014 and titled, THE SCATTERED SEEDS, TALES FROM THE 'GREAT MELTING POT'. These stories are American fictions set in history depicting the lives of the many immigrant families that have become a part of the 'great melting pot'. The first volume, ANEW, and the second volume, DARBY'S ROAD are also available in paper at createspace.com.
