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Southern Sons (Kitty McKenzie Book 3) Kindle Edition

by AnneMarie Brear (Author) Format: Kindle Edition
4.5 out of 5 stars 2,596 ratings
From the award-winning author of The Slum Angel.
1914, Australia.
As war is declared, the idyllic world of Blue Water Station is torn apart when Oliver, the eldest grandson and heir, shares his desire to enlist in the army. His enthusiasm ignites his brother, cousins and friends to do the same, but upsets his sister, Tilly. After a tragic family incident, Tilly is left to run the cattle station and take care of the older folk. A chance meeting with a sophisticated Lieutenant opens up a friendship through letters, but it’s a rogue stockman who attracts her attention with dire consequences.
With the men at war, and her heart pulled in two directions, Tilly must grow up quickly and face the consequences of her rash decisions. Will She find her own happiness? Surviving a baptism of battle fire in Gallipoli, Turkey, Oliver and the men are sent to France and feel the brutal force of the Western Front. The only glimmer of light for Oliver is his relationship with Jessica, an army nurse. But as the terrors of war impact him, he feels the heavy guilt of encouraging the others to follow him into combat. Will he, and they, ever make it home to Blue Water.
Can the grandchildren of Kitty McKenzie survive the horrors of war?

Read Kitty's story in Kitty McKenzie and Kitty McKenzie's Land.
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  1. Book 3 of 3
    Kitty McKenzie
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    386 pages
  3. Language
    English
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  5. Publication date
    November 6, 2017
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"This story has all the poignancy and emotion I've come to expect from AnneMarie Brear." Maggi Andersen, best selling historical author.

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  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B0777HWMKF
  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ AnneMarie Brear
  • Accessibility ‏ : ‎ Learn more
  • Publication date ‏ : ‎ November 6, 2017
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • File size ‏ : ‎ 1.9 MB
  • Screen Reader ‏ : ‎ Supported
  • Enhanced typesetting ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • X-Ray ‏ : ‎ Not Enabled
  • Word Wise ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • Print length ‏ : ‎ 386 pages
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1999865009
  • Page Flip ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • Book 3 of 3 ‏ : ‎ Kitty McKenzie
  • Customer Reviews:
    4.5 out of 5 stars 2,596 ratings

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AnneMarie Brear

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"Poignant, powerful and searingly emotional, AnneMarie Brear stands shoulder to shoulder with the finest works by some of the genre’s greatest writers such as Catherine Cookson, Audrey Howard and Rosamunde Pilcher." Amazon reviewer.

Author of over thirty-five novels, AnneMarie Brear has crafted sweeping historical fiction with atmosphere, emotion, and drama aplenty that will surely satisfy any fan of the genre. AnneMarie was born in a small town in N.S.W. Australia, to English parents from Yorkshire, and is the youngest of five children. From an early age she loved reading, working her way through the Enid Blyton stories, before moving onto Catherine Cookson’s novels as a teenager.

Living in England during the 1980s and more recently, AnneMarie developed a love of history from visiting grand old English houses and this grew into a fascination with what may have happened behind their walls over their long existence. Her enjoyment of visiting old country estates and castles when travelling and, her interest in genealogy and researching her family tree, has been put to good use, providing backgrounds and names for her historical novels which are mainly set in Yorkshire or Australia between Victorian times and WWII.

A long and winding road to publication led to her first novel being published in 2006.

She has now published over thirty-five historical family saga novels, becoming an Amazon best seller and with her novel, The Slum Angel, winning a gold medal at the USA Reader's Favourite International Awards. Two of her books have been nominated for the Romance Writer’s Australia Ruby Award and the USA In’dtale Magazine Rone award and recently she has been nominated twice as a finalist for the UK RNA RONA Awards.

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  • Alice Shrewsberry
    5.0 out of 5 stars read it
    Reviewed in the United States on July 22, 2023
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    Good as a standalone but better if you read the series. Has a bit of everything history, romance, friendship, and family
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  • Amazon Customer
    5.0 out of 5 stars perfect ending
    Reviewed in the United States on November 19, 2022
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    Once again you kept me reading, wondering who would survive and where we would be next. The ending was just right, Oliver letting go of his guilt and Tully realizes why.
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  • Kindle Customer
    4.0 out of 5 stars Loving, suspenseful, informative.
    Reviewed in the United States on July 28, 2019
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    I never wanted it to end. I wanted to know about the people and the happenings. The war was horrid and each time I was happy when the boys made it safely. I wanted to shake Tully when she became involved with the scumbag. Each chapter was. Awaited with anticipation.
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  • Laurie Eiseman
    5.0 out of 5 stars Very good read
    Reviewed in the United States on March 3, 2023
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    I thoroughly enjoyed this series and look forward to reading more books by Annemarie Brear.
    Her description of the Australian landscape brings back so many fond memories of my own.
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  • Diane Scott Lewis
    5.0 out of 5 stars An Australian Family Experience in WWI
    Reviewed in the United States on September 29, 2017
    Author Brear's heartfelt prose puts you right into 1914 Australia and a young woman' struggle to run her family's station while her brothers go off to war. Tilly takes on a man's duties, and succeeds, but her emotions are open to the machinations of a villain.
    Her brothers suffer the losses and horrors of war in Europe. Death and destruction is all around them, turning their youthful enthusiasm into the bare bones of survival. You will root for these well-rounded characters, I know I did. I especially enjoyed Tilly's story.
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  • Karren's Reading Nook
    5.0 out of 5 stars Five Stars
    Reviewed in the United States on October 28, 2017
    Great book.
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  • joanne tabacco
    2.0 out of 5 stars Loved the first two in the series, this one disappoints.
    Reviewed in the United States on June 25, 2023
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    I was truly vested in Kitty McKenzie. This book is not about her at all. To call it a Kitty McKenzie book is doing a disservice to the reader. Kitty and her husband are just reduced to the role of grandparents and all of a sudden we are supposed to be interested in a mess of young adults two generations removed. going off to war. If I wanted a war book I would have bought one. I skipped through every other chapter from the war setting. No character was well developed and Tilly was not someone I was even remotely interested in, nor was Luke. The story line could never have stood alone, so it became part of the Kitty McKenzie story and as such was very disappointing.
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  • Catharina kokke
    5.0 out of 5 stars History recollection in the human experience of WW1
    Reviewed in Canada on August 25, 2023
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    It’s so easy to forget the past wars
    Especially since this one was over a 100 years ago
    AnnaMarie brought back to life the experience and emotions of soldiers mothers fathers and children.
    Thank you for this book and let us not forget the trauma a war brings to everyone
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  • Amazon Customer
    5.0 out of 5 stars heart breaking and heart warming
    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on January 20, 2025
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    A wonderfully written book. I lived every moment of all of their lives I couldn’t put this book down. I will be thinking of this story for a long time
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  • KindleFan
    5.0 out of 5 stars Another very good book by this author
    Reviewed in Australia on April 13, 2021
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    As I have read and enjoyed two Kitty McKenzie books, I just had to read this one which is about Kitty's grandchildren, her only grand-daughter Tilly being one of the main characters. Like the other two books this one didn't disappoint. The story regularly shifts between the running of an Australian cattle property without the young men in the family, to the horrors of WWI. Reading books about the wars makes us reflect on just how terrible those times were and appreciate how very brave and strong those who lived in those times had to be.
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  • Ewinstanley
    4.0 out of 5 stars A true novel,
    Reviewed in Canada on August 16, 2023
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    I liked the historIc time and backdrop of the Australian out back and world war .And the saga of a multi generation family dealing with love, hard times, tragedy and relationships moving through this time period. I found the entire kitty McKenzie series a great red.
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  • Amazon Customer
    5.0 out of 5 stars Great reading
    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on January 22, 2025
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    Loved all three of these books and the many others I have read by AnneMarie Brear such great stories next one please
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