No Journey Too Far by Carrie Turansky-351 pages

This is the sequel to No Ocean Too Wide.  We follow the four McAlister children from their adoptions into families in Canada after being sent there as part of the British Home Children Indentured program in the early 1900's.  In this sequel they are all grown except Grace who is seventeen.  She knows nothing of her family back in England until she finds her trunk in the attic that she brought with her when she was seven. So begins her quest to find her real family.

Through lots of twists and turns we finally have a happy ending.  You are pulling for this family all the way through.  I enjoyed seeing how they all endured their hardships and the way those same hardships molded them into the adults they became.  

Shine Like the Dawn

Shine Like the Dawn by Carrie Turansky 338 pages

Margaret Lousbury works in her grandmother's millinery shop and looks after her younger sister Violet after her parents died in an accident on the lake?
Nate is Maggie's estranged childhood friend and son of a wealthy inventor and industrialist who returns home after his father's death. When he takes over his father's engineering company, he also takes on the old debt he was repaying to the Lousbury family. However, after so many years away Maggie isn't sure she can trust Nate.
Can Maggie learn to forgive Nate? Can she get back on good terms with God after all that has happened?

No Ocean Too Wide by Carrie Turansky

 No Ocean Too Wide by Carrie Turansky-354 pages

Inspired by true events, this story takes place in London in 1908.  It was a time when there were many orphans on the streets of London and they thought that the program of shipping them off to Canada, to loving homes was the answer. 

The McAlister family is living on the edge of the poorhouse after the tragic loss of their father.
When the mother falls tragically ill and is hospitalized, her younger children are forced to go to the orphanage.  When they are shipped to Canada their oldest sister knows that she must act quickly if she is to bring the family back together again.

This book brings to the fore what situations these poor children found themselves in.  Yet, the love of their true family is what strengthened them to endure.

I enjoyed this book very much.