Sojourn in Time

SOJOURN IN TIME - A NOVEL with a nineteen-thirties and forties background.

SOJOURN IN TIME is the story of Muriel O'Dwyer and her sister, Agnes, who live in a small town during the nineteen-thirties and forties. Their stories are interwoven with sketches of acquaintances and other people living in their town and neighboring towns.

Muriel O'Dwyer is an independent and intelligent woman who believes that in life people should follow their star and not endure in situations where they are not happy. She leaves her position as a school teacher and opens up a tea room. The tea room is not a resounding success so Muriel trains to become a nurse at the local hospital. It is here that she meets the handsome Desmond Cormack who comes to visit his hospitalized mother. They fall in love and are married before Desmond goes overseas. Desmond is killed in France. Muriel lives with her sister, Agnes, who runs a Beauty Salon. Muriel helps in the salon spending more and more time there and eventually not returning to nursing. Her sister's husband dies and, after some years, the two sisters take a tour of several European countries traveling across the ocean by ship at a time when traveling by plane was only beginning to become the accepted way to travel.