In Search of Henry

by Arnold Powell (Author)

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  Hardcover
  2006

  $3.21

  This is a genealogical detective story mixing fact and fiction, romance and tragedy. In Search of Henry takes the reader on a remarkable journey from Europe and America during the First World War to London at the turn of the millennium. It is an unforgettable story of prejudice, ignorance, love and death. Henry is a young, talented Jew living in Baltimore in 1914, where he meets and falls in love with a Catholic girl, Claire. Forbidden to see each other, the couple marry in secret, but while this can be kept from their parents, Claire's pregnancy cannot...In late twentieth-century London, Alfred Chiswick is researching his family history and comes across the mystery of Henry: the generalogical record does not match the story told by surviving family members. Intrigued, Alfred digs deeper and soon begins to wish he had left his sleeping ancestors alone...