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In 1918 when Ashley writes to Evangeline from the War Front to say he is coming home, she is confronted with the horrors of war; Ashley’s injuries and exposure to Mustard Gas, until now she has passionately distanced herself from the truth. Evangeline’s brother, Dick and his friend Michael, both Doctors come to assist how and when they can, but Ashley’s injuries are far worse than he is revealing to Evangeline.

During 1922 Ireland fights for her own Parliament hits its peak for Evangeline when she is woken at 5:00AM and forced at gunpoint to make breakfast for a hungry and injured troop of soldiers from the notorious Black and Tans. After this point, Kilfinane is no longer the place Evangeline remembers as a child. With little preparations and no closure, Evangeline, Ashley, Richard Jnr and Alice pack their suitcases and travel to England, where they settle in Brighton, leaving everything behind in Kilfinane.

When Ashley dies from his First World War injuries two years later, Evangeline moves again, as far away as she possibly can from Ireland and the memories it holds.

Evangeline purchases two one-way tickets on the Glasgow Orient Liner, “SS Osterley” on a six week journey to Daylesford, Victoria Australia. Here she and Richard Jnr settle in a two bedroom miner’s cottage on a peaceful hill overlooking Lake Daylesford.