Explorations Read-Aloud: “Both Sides of the Pond” by Barbara Kent Lawrence

Every Friday, at 11:00 am, on the library’s YouTube Channel and Facebook Page, the library will stream a brand new recording of local thespian, Joseph Coté reading aloud selections from a wide variety of fascinating and entertaining books of fiction and non-fiction.

For October 3, Coté will read aloud from Barbara Kent Lawrence’s novel Both Sides of the Pond.

In January of 1939 when Barbara Greene, a beautiful young British actress, met Joe Kennedy, Jr., son of the American Ambassador, she could not have anticipated that their relationship would lead to her emigrating to the United States and learning the pilot a plane.

Neither could her brother Kent have foreseen his bitter retreat from Dunkirk when he left England in January 1940 to fight in France, or his subsequent service on the front lines in Cornwall, North Africa, Sicily, and Burma.

In this intensively researched story of their war, we also hear the stories of other ordinary people who survived extraordinary circumstances.

Click the links to find the library’s YouTube Channel and Facebook Page.

Thoughts to share? Book ideas to suggest?
Contact Joseph at friday-explorations@usa.net