It’s 1942. With polished boots and bulging wallets, the Americans have come to defend a highly strategic location—Newfoundland: the Allies’ new transatlantic transportation hub. Like thousands of others chasing new opportunities, Violet Morgen abandons her remote outport home and heads to St. John's. An amateur forecaster with a powerful sixth sense for the island’s tempestuous winds and weather, Violet is determined to help the Americans fight the enemy. But determination, it turns out, is not enough.
Carefully crafted, entertaining, and informative, The Weather Diviner is a tale in which friends make a difference, weather makes for interesting conversation, and opportunity comes to those who dare to dream.
My name is so common, I'm frequently asked if I'm Elizabeth Murphy, the so and so. I'm not the champion golfer in Newfoundland. Nor am I the one who served as Clerk's assistant in the NL House of Assembly. I am, however, the Elizabeth Murphy on academia.edu who published tons of papers and co-authored an academic book in which I believe I make an important point. But let's not go there now.
Goodread’s overpopulated with Elizabeth Murphy, authors. There’s a psychologist, a soil scientist, and one with >40 romance novels. Kewl! I’m in good company. I'd like to be known as Elizabeth Murphy, author of The Weather Diviner, a novel dedicated to an island, Newfoundland, where the winds got a mind of their own.