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The Loggers' Hut

The Loggers' Hut

David Nelson
5/5 ( ratings)
“We can’t change the past just because we don’t like it, Matt. It is what it is, mistakes and all.” Five minutes after uttering those words, Ted Magee was lying dead at his son’s feet, and Matt’s world changed forever.

Reared in a country town, nothing in his upbringing had prepared Private Matt Magee, now a conscripted soldier, for fighting in Vietnam or for the fear and horrors that he would experience over there, but in Vietnam, he became a man and a very different person from the one who went there twelve months before. There is no place for the faint hearted in a war zone. The dangers, the fighting and the daily deprivations living in a military camp brought to the surface personal qualities that Matt never knew he possessed.

He returned to Australia a man haunted by Vietnam and its tragedies and totally unprepared for the changes that have taken place in his family while he has been away. Everything about his former life has changed and he has nowhere to call home. He is again visited by tragedy when his former girlfriend, Cathy, is killed and the finger of suspicion is pointed at him. Unable to adjust to life back home, he becomes a lost soul and flees from everything that was once familiar to him. In doing so, he does not discover the secret that would have changed the course of his life.

His luck changes for the better when he meets his former Army sergeant, and his life is changed yet again.

This story is about Matt Magee, his mate Sgt Harry Gault from Vietnam, and the four key women in his life: Margaret ; Cathy ; Carolyn ; and Maddie, the secret he does not discover for more than three decades.

It is the story of a gentle man who finds sanctuary and happiness in an old loggers’ hut on Harry’s farm. His new life is a far cry from the one he imagined having when he was a teenager. It has been a life of extremes—happiness and sadness, lost and found opportunities, awful tragedies, and some surprisingly good fortune.
Pages
368
Format
Kindle Edition

The Loggers' Hut

David Nelson
5/5 ( ratings)
“We can’t change the past just because we don’t like it, Matt. It is what it is, mistakes and all.” Five minutes after uttering those words, Ted Magee was lying dead at his son’s feet, and Matt’s world changed forever.

Reared in a country town, nothing in his upbringing had prepared Private Matt Magee, now a conscripted soldier, for fighting in Vietnam or for the fear and horrors that he would experience over there, but in Vietnam, he became a man and a very different person from the one who went there twelve months before. There is no place for the faint hearted in a war zone. The dangers, the fighting and the daily deprivations living in a military camp brought to the surface personal qualities that Matt never knew he possessed.

He returned to Australia a man haunted by Vietnam and its tragedies and totally unprepared for the changes that have taken place in his family while he has been away. Everything about his former life has changed and he has nowhere to call home. He is again visited by tragedy when his former girlfriend, Cathy, is killed and the finger of suspicion is pointed at him. Unable to adjust to life back home, he becomes a lost soul and flees from everything that was once familiar to him. In doing so, he does not discover the secret that would have changed the course of his life.

His luck changes for the better when he meets his former Army sergeant, and his life is changed yet again.

This story is about Matt Magee, his mate Sgt Harry Gault from Vietnam, and the four key women in his life: Margaret ; Cathy ; Carolyn ; and Maddie, the secret he does not discover for more than three decades.

It is the story of a gentle man who finds sanctuary and happiness in an old loggers’ hut on Harry’s farm. His new life is a far cry from the one he imagined having when he was a teenager. It has been a life of extremes—happiness and sadness, lost and found opportunities, awful tragedies, and some surprisingly good fortune.
Pages
368
Format
Kindle Edition

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