Shattered Dreams

Shattered Dreams is the continuing saga of the Dockerty family. Based on a manuscript left by Vivienne’s mother, the story tells of a young couple’s dreams for their future together, only to have them shattered because of the 1930s Depression and conscription into the Second World War. Most of the story is written from the experiences of an ordinary soldier in his endeavours to keep alive whilst battles raged all around him and many of his comrades were killed. Eddie was a stricken man who returned to Civvy Street to a land that was most certainly not fit for heroes. The country faced rationing, mass unemployment and a huge amount of money owed to the USA and, at the expense of the country’s younger generation, many hadn’t survived to make Britain great again.

Shattered Dreams will appeal to fans of Vivienne Dockerty’s work and those that enjoy World War 2 and biographical fiction. Vivienne is inspired by Katie Flynn and Maureen Lee and her writing style emulates the work of Dilly Court.

Shattered Dreams is a sharing of a family's physical and emotional survival of WWII. In America they sang "Over There" as they sent their young fighting men to do battle with the Nazi's and other Axis powers in Europe. This story is about a family displaced and derailed from their very home by the evil Hitler regime in early 1940's England. This is a very personal story of a father who left his family behind to go and fight for the freedom that would bring back the peace to their home soil. There are many books written about the strategic campaigns of the commanders as they battled and conquered the enemy. Few books speak from the heart of the soldier as he actually marched into Normandy, described the bullets flying past his ears, and putting a kind hand out to the poor innocent women and children in the war's destructive path.

This book made me cry in many parts (I won't ruin it by telling you) and gain a new level of respect for the soldier's true sacrifice of undernourishment, and marching bravely into foreign mined-terrain, for his family and his country. It is a timeless tale. Well done, Ms. Dockerty!

By Cathy Leigh Knowles

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