Brave Enemies is a page-turning story of people brought together by chance and torn apart by war—a story of enduring love and of the struggle to build a homeland.
From the author of Gap Creek-an international best-seller and winner of the Southern Book Critics Circle Award-comes the gripping story of two brothers struggling against each other and the confines of their mountain world in 1920s Appalachia.
The story of a family who found, marked and paved their way into America's frontier, told in the voices of three generations of mountaineers.
Tom wants land to call his own, and Ginny knows she can't manage her ageing father's farm by herself. They enjoy a mutual attraction, but their obsessions always end up in the way. It's not until Tom lies at the mercy of a disease, that Ginny realises her truest pleasure.
