The Cottage Industry
The Cottage Industry by Edward McSweegan is a historical romance published by Wild Rose Press on June 5, 2024. This edition spans 324 pages and is presented in English. The narrative follows David Enders, a pilot for the French Army during the Great War, as he returns to Connecticut grappling with the aftermath of his experiences in post-war France. At home, he faces family challenges, including a difficult father and a sister in a mysterious coma, all while navigating a country still reeling from wartime tensions.
Readers will find a richly detailed setting in Old Lyme, a town filled with bootleggers, flappers, and artists from the renowned Old Lyme Art Colony. The story explores themes of love and escape against a backdrop of societal constraints and civil liberties under threat. As David seeks to build a new life and connect with an artist amidst the chaos, the narrative delves into the complexities of personal and social struggles in the 20th century.
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David Enders, pilot for the French Army during the Great War, returns to Connecticut after wandering post-war France with a condition similar to shell-shocked men from the trenches. At home he must contend with a difficult father, a sister locked in a mysterious post-influenza coma, and a volatile country still in the grips of wartime paranoia and civil liberty restrictions. He finds work building houses in Old Lyme, a summertime town of bootleggers, rum runners, flappers, clammers, crooked deputies, and the famous Old Lyme Art Colony whose impressionist painters don’t want their bucolic landscapes marred by cookie-cutter cottages. Enders falls in love with one of those artists, but encircled by suffocating customs, illiberal laws, and petty criminals, they’re looking for an escape.
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