Searching for Home

<p>Where do I belong? </p><p><br></p><p>In 1912 Mary Louisa Appleton is 27 years old and a domestic servant in Cornwall England. She sees no future there so she accepts employment with a family returning to Alberta Canada. It is the land of unlimited opportunity or so she has heard.</p><p><br></p><p>Once in Canada Mary faces the dilemma of all immigrants - where does she belong? </p><p><br></p><p>She is conflicted: her body is in Canada but her heart is in England. She longs to return to England but wars marriage children the Dirty Thirties and economic circumstances conspire to keep her in Canada. </p><p><br></p><p>Then Mary faces a crisis and she has to decide where she belongs. </p><p><br></p><p><em>Searching for Home</em> is the story of the author's maternal grandmother and her journey to learn that home is as much a place in the heart as it is a place on the landscape</p>