The G.I.'s Daughter

The hostilities of World War Two began just days after Jeremy and Rebecca Lisle married. Eight months later, in May 1940, the British army deployed Jeremy to North Africa. He did not arrive back home until late 1944, to be greeted by a wife he now hardly knew.  Their relationship had been further complicated by the American airfield that had been built on fields beside their home near Cambridge, and from which flights of B-17s sallied forth to attack Hitler’s Reich.

It would take sixty years to unravel the tangled web that had been spun by the woman who stayed home, the G.I. who loved her, and her soldier husband. Is it possible for two families, one English and the other from Tennessee, to make sense of such confusion three generations later?

The G.I.’s Daughter is about the fortunes of war. It is the life story of good people struggling to survive in the midst of death, destruction, and dislocation, encouraging readers to consider their response in similar circumstances. It is a war story, a mystery, a romance, a personal challenge for the thoughtful men and women who might read it. All this plays out on three continents from 1939 to 2015, when something both unexpected and beautiful happens, drawing the threads together and beginning a new chapter for all involved.

While the story of The G.I.’s Daughter is pure fiction, it grew out of things that did happen in the lives of the author’s parents.  What is true is the backdrop of the grim determination of the British to defend their island – standing alone against the Nazi tyranny until the United States came in alongside them.