Milree Latimer is a writer whose life-long career as an educator and a professor has given her stories to tell and words to tell them. She is a storyteller, a singer of songs and a seeker of adventures --- especially in Ireland and Paris. An expat Canadian she lives in among the mountains of the Pacific Northwest with her husband Jerry, and their three cats. Having found a "place" of home, she continues to explore the ‘sense’ of home that is found only in the heart.

She has written a memoir, WILL YOU BE SITTING BESIDE ME; a novel, THOSE WE LEFT BEHIND; and has just published her new historical fiction, OUT OF PLACE. The novel takes place between 1913 and 1940 and continues Milree’s theme of finding home. It is a story that explores the questions: Where is home when nothing is certain? Where is home when the world is defined by a war that was to end all wars? The First World War.

Books by Milree Latimer

Out of Place

by Milree Latimer - Fiction, Historical Fiction

In 1913, 15-year-old Martha is sent from an orphanage in Dublin to relatives she has never met in Canada --- her cousin, Anna, a kindred spirit, and her aunt, who loathes her. Here Martha uncovers a tragic family history. When World War I occurs, Anna voyages to France to care for the wounded soldiers and loses herself in shell shock. Martha leaves the emptiness of her adopted family and becomes a wartime farmerette. Her life is as a farmer, mother and wife to Charlie coming home from war, broken. In 1938, Simon Lansky, a German Jewish professor, asks for help to save his daughters from a dreadful fate. Martha and Anna, hardened to war and its torments, travel to Europe to rescue the girls.