Blood Feud

Hardback. New. In Colerain County, Ohio, not long before the U.S. enters the Second World War, a smaller war is waiting to erupt. After years of an uneasy truce, the longstanding tensions between the Clemmer and Kilkinney clans have once more begun to escalate. The rekindling of that feud and its devastating resolution - as seen through the eyes of 13-year-old Winnie Clemmer - are the subject of Annabel Thomas' powerful new novel. "All wars, little or big, have elements in common, " Winnie observes. "Over and above the shedding of blood, I mean. To my thinking, self-interest starts them, plain meanness keeps them going. And of course whoever wins, the results are the same: the shriveling of souls." Embroiled in this conflict, which is rooted in the Civil War and the ancestral rivalries between Anglo-Saxon and Celt, are a host of indelibly etched characters.