Description

Greener Horizons, a follow-up from the very popular Greener Pastures and Brown Blazers, is a semi-autobiographical intriguing tale, revealing the twists and turns of a young woman’s life after leaving the confines of a Convent grammar boarding school. Emma Holmes, with Faith, her best friend, leaves family behind and moves to an industrial town to begin working life with expectations of spending money, having fun, meeting boyfriends and eventually, being married. In reality, she becomes involved with a questionable young man and is thwarted by her father who steps in, over-riding her plans because ‘it is for the best.’ In another town and separated from her friend, Emma eventually meets her Mr Right. Her mother asks if he is a Catholic (he has never been inside a Catholic church) and his mother wants to know what he will do about having children. Will life live up to her expectations if it means being many miles from home; communicating by letter only; and making ends meet on one salary?

Go down memory lane and enjoy this fascinating life story of a young woman in the early 1960s.