Old Stones: The Biography of a Family

At the end of the Second World War nearly 50,000 women emigrated to Canada from Britain and the continent. For them that Atlantic crossing marked the beginning of a great adventure: a new country; a new life; and a new husband, scarred from the bomb-rutted fields of Europe. For many children of these unions came a dual heritage, a cultural divide that made "home" a difficult place to define.In Old Stones, the gap between A. S. Penne's privileged English and provincial Canadian backgrounds is made achingly clear in family stories from both continents. The author sifts through many photographs, letters and heirlooms handed down through generations of her English heritage and compares them to what at first appears to be her negligible Canadian inheritance. In the end, the author does indeed find home-where she least expects it.