Voyage: A Memoir of Love, War, and Ever After - Paperback

by Catherine Fitzpatrick (Author)

A WORLD AT WAR . . . A lonely sailor without a sawbuck to spare. A gorgeous socialite on the home front. Letters soaked in longing. Secrets taken to the grave. Easy births. Hard deaths. And dogs --dogs aplenty. They say love conquers all, but will bonds forged by Lt. N. Robert Underhill and Miss Merrilee Meier during World War II survive the peaks and valleys of peacetime? Across their 58-year-marriage, Bob and Merrilee confront holiday fiascoes and funeral foul-ups, windless regattas and catastrophic tornadoes, a medical crisis and a financial reversal. But rearing six kids is the ultimate test of a love that began with a letter.

Author Biography

A career in metro daily journalism took Catherine from newsrooms in Hannibal and St. Louis to Milwaukee. On Sept. 11, 2001, while in Manhattan to cover Fashion Week runway shows, Catherine raced downtown and filed eye-witness dispatches about the terrorist attacks. A brief account of her ordeal is described in the book RUNNING TOWARD DANGER (Rowman and Littlefield, 2002). An edition of the newspaper containing one of her dispatches is among those displayed in the 9/11 wing of The Newseum in Washington D.C. Catherine's personal account has been accessioned into the Women in Journalism Collection of the Missouri State Historical Society.A while back, Catherine made the transition to freelance writer and novelist. Her articles and essays have been published in magazines, literary reviews, and five anthologies. Her essay, "Sounds and Fury," about 9/11, appeared in the online literary review www.halfwaydownthestairs.net.Catherine's debut novel was published in 2010. "A Matter of Happenstance," is a four-generation family saga set in St. Louis, MO. Print and digital editions are available on Amazon.com or at www.amatterofhappenstance.com.Catherine's follow-up novel, "Going on Nine," published Mah 20, 2014 by Familius in print, eBook and audio book formats.A board member of the Chicago-based TallGrass Writers Guild, Catherine and her husband, Dennis, live in Bonita Springs, FL.