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Slicing Clouds: A poignant and engrossing story of family, love, hardship, and remembrance.
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General FictionHistorical FictionLiterary Fiction
ISBN13: 9781069461025
Publisher: Steel Door Publishing
Published: Apr 25 2026
Pages: 384
Weight: 0.84
Height: 0.79 Width: 5.00 Depth: 8.00
Language: English
A poignant and engrossing story of family, love, hardship, and remembrance.
He was just a quiet boy from Birmingham... but war would change everything.Edward Bolton dreamed of flying while the world around him pushed him toward factory work and hardship. Then came 1939. Love, loss, war, and memories too painful to carry alone. Decades later, a chance meeting in a hospital uncovers the hidden life of an unsung hero.If you love emotional historical fiction with romance and family drama, Slicing Clouds belongs on your shelf.
Edward Bolton moves through life with remarkable ease from a young age, seemingly untouched by adversity. Born in Birmingham, England in 1920 and faced with various hardships, he manages to find happiness in his environment. He spends much of his time daydreaming, often about flying, which frustrates his teachers.
Having to start work at the age of ten, Edward becomes a skilled metalworker, yet his social awkwardness and background hold him back. His story intertwines his working family, romance and sports until the outbreak of war in 1939, when he joins the RAF, seeing it as an opportunity to finally take to the skies. The impact of war shatters his world, exposing him to hardships he had never before encountered.
Following a series of tragic events, Edward approaches the end of his life filled with bitterness and resentment.
During this turbulent period, while Edward is confined to a hospital bed, he crosses paths with Skye Ferguson, whose husband occupies the bed beside him. As unexpected events unfold, Skye becomes increasingly drawn to Edward's past, and her curiosity pushes her to uncover the milestones he reached and the hardships that shaped his life.
Drawn deeply into his quiet sorrow and silent strength, she finds herself wanting to capture his life in writing - not out of duty, but out of a tender need to understand him. A book that would become a gentle voice to trace the shadows of his later years and honour the weight of his struggles and the quiet dignity of his achievements, giving him the recognition he was never granted in life.
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