Echoes of Innocence

(The first book of Patrick Hopton’s ‘Echoes’ Trilogy) The diary of a young woman, written in the period before and during the First World War, reaches out to touch and transform the empty life of Stephen Cantrell three quarters of a century later. Bernice Lamb, a spirited sixteen year old when she took up her pen, has chronicled the daily events of her own life and loves set against the backdrop of an era of innocence - an innocence that is about to be destroyed for ever. Someone has taken great pains to ensure that Bernie’s diary comes into Stephen’s possession. But who? . . . And why?