The author is known for Canadian historical fiction. For Bluebird, she notes that she was fascinated with the "Who" of Prohibition. That extremely thorough research extended to multiple authentic plot lines in Bluebird, as it would through World War I and Prohibition. It follows a nurse and two brothers who are soldiers through their war experience then back home to a world that is dramatically changed. However, the novel weaves a thread to present day discoveries of bootleg whisky and a museum curator who has a personal tie to the story. Well done. You won't want to put it down as the next adventure unfolds! I did receive an advance copy from the publisher, but I would gladly have purchased it. Totally spellbinding!

Genevieve Graham writes an ambitious and danger-filled novel of love, sacrifice and family that I couldn’t put down.

Genevieve Graham has cemented herself as an instant-buy for me with Bluebird. The story switches between Jerry and Adele, World War 1 vets who are trying to find their purpose in a world that looks very different than what they left behind, and present day Cassie who is forced to examine her past and look to her future when a chance discovery shakes her foundation. I loved this book and gobbled it up greedily. It has everything: a sweeping historical fiction romance, a window into an interesting part of Canadian history and a heart-stopping climax that will make you gasp, cry and maybe even put the book down for a moment.

The main story is between Jerry and Adele: two people who meet in a field hospital and discover that they are both from the Windsor area in Ontario, Canada. But Jerry is a tunneller, and Adele isn’t sure he’ll survive the war.

Spoiler alert: they do both make it back home to Windsor, but they don’t run into each other for a few years. Instead we readers watch them rebuild the lives they left behind and struggle to adapt to a world that had rapidly changed while they fought for freedom halfway across the world. I loved the insight Genevieve shared about what veterans – both the soldiers and the nurses – fared when they came back home. Not everyone welcomed them back with open arms. Jerry and Adele of course are back home during the beginning of prohibition, and living in a city renowned for its rumrunning enterprise. Their chemistry is palpable when they do finally meet up again in Canada and they are one of my favourite couples I’ve read this year: strong, loyal, independent and filled with mutual respect for each other. Yes, please.

Genevieve always fills her stories with delightful secondary characters who fill out her hero’s tapestry, and there is a delightful cast of family, friends and villains who colour Bluebird. I especially love Adele’s war-time friendships. One main theme throughout the book is the bond and sacrifice of families. Bluebird is filled with different types of families that struggle, fight and love. How far does the bond of brothers go? Can you build your own family? How does familial love (or the lack thereof) shape a person? Genevieve asks these questions throughout Bluebird and will push the reader to think about their own family bonds long after the book is finished.

Bluebird is an action-packed book filled with fast pacing and strong character development. While I adored the romance Genevieve writes, I also loved the vivid, research-filled details in the present day she adds that helps readers understand the time period a little better. This book is an all-around winner for me: it tackles prohibition, PTSD, and The Spanish Flu while still being packed with emotion and intensity.

If you like the danger and action of Peaky Blinders mixed with some Canadian history, then you’ll love Bluebird.

Thank you, Simon and Schuster Canada for the ARC in exchange for an honest review.

Genevieve Graham has outdone herself with BLUEBIRD! She once again delivers an exciting story filled with mystery, hope and intrigue.
Bluebird has dual timelines. World War I and present day! This intriguing tale, that takes place during the war and post-war prohibition. We follow some fictional characters based on the journeys of real brave women of that period! The two heroines, Adele a nurse in the Canadian Army Medical Corps and at present day, Cassie, a museum curator, who is herself very intrigued by Adele's story. She will discover a hidden treasure and secrets about their families.
This is such an important piece of Canada's history and it's brought to life in these pages. The WWI Canadian Nursing Sisters (aka "Bluebirds), the WWI Tunnellers, the Spanish Flu, the Temperance movement, the Black sleeping car porters who were all called "George" (I'm so glad that was in the book) the origins of the modern day War Amps, Rumrunning and bootlegging in Windsor/Detroit, the great descriptions of actual Speakeasies.
What starts as a love story between a nurse and a soldier, this book is so much more, spanning the years from the Great war to the roaring 20s. You will fall in love with these characters. An extremely well-researched and historical fiction book.
Thank you to NetGalley for an advanced readers copy in exchange for an honest review.

Thank you Netgalley, Simon & Schuster Canada and most of all Genevieve Graham
Absolutely wonderful story. Loved all the characters, oftentimes, the book put smiles on my face.
Heartwarming, tender love story set during WW1 and prohibition in Canada.
I love Genevieve Graham stories, her writing. She is an auto buy author.
I will buy this book when it comes out
Highly recommend
5 stars

This is a Historical Fiction with a romance. This book as to two timelines (Present day and 1918). This book starts out during WWI, but Most of this book takes place during the roaring 1920s. I love this book was mostly about the rumrunners and not the war. The roaring 1920s always interest me, so I know I had to pick this book up. I live in the Southern part of North Carolina where there was a ton of Whiskey doing homemade and ran illegally during that time period just like the rumrunners in that part of Canada, so I enjoyed reading a story that had that in it. I think that this book shows the scary parts of it and the fun parts of it really well. Genevieve brings history and characters to life. She is one of my favorite Historical Fiction authors. This is a great story with a great romance and fill of history. I loved every second I spent reading this book. I have to add I love the cover of this book so much. I was kindly provided an e-copy of this book by the publisher (Simon & Schuster) or author (Genevieve Graham) via NetGalley, so I can give an honest review about how I feel about this book. I want to send a big Thank you to them for that.

BLUEBIRD by Genevieve Graham is a beautifully-written and meticulously-researched story of war, love and the resilience of the human spirit in trying times. As always with her books, the author has brought to life little-known events in Canadian history and blended the true history with romance, intrigue and complex characters that draw you right in. The dual timeline story is set during the Great War and the post-war Prohibition era in Windsor, Ontario and the present day when a surprising find during an old home renovation ties the two time periods together. In the present day, museum curator, Cassie Simmons is called to pick up fifty whisky bottles labeled Bailey Brothers’ Best found in the walls of the home. Matthew, the contractor, is unaware that the home he is renovating is actually where Cassie spent her childhood with her grandmother. She hopes the find will lead her to answers about her famous rum-running family and the secrets they kept. In 1918, Jeremiah (Jerry) Bailey is part of the 1st Canadian Tunneling Company, a dangerous job planting mines in the tunnels beneath the enemy trenches. After an explosion badly wounds Jerry, he ends up in a field hospital in Belgium being cared for by Adele Savard, one of the brave Canadian nurses known as Bluebirds. They develop a special bond they will always hold on to even after Jerry returns to the front. When the war ends, Jerry and Adele find themselves back in Windsor where Prohibition is in full swing. After a chance meeting, the two rekindle their relationship, but new dangers threaten their new life. BLUEBIRD is a romantic love story and an engrossing family drama. I love learning something new about history when I read historical fiction and this book truly delivered. Don’t miss the Author’s Note at the end for even more background on the history. I very highly recommend this compelling book. Thank you to the author, publisher and NetGalley for the chance to read an early copy.

Multiple time periods tell a story of the Great War, the Roaring 20s and Prohibition, and lost and found love. Present day...a case of booze hidden in the walls of a house undergoing rennovation is the motivating factor in this story...a.fascinating look at bootlegging and the time of prohibition. This book is a bit of everything...ýhistory, romance, women's fiction and mystery. Thank you to Netgalley for the opportunity to read an advanced copy of this book in exchange for an honest review.

Historical fiction winner

This may be Ms Graham's best book yet! She writes historical fiction from a Canadian viewpoint which always give me something to learn and something to ponder, along with a good story. Bluebird is not exception. I thoroughly enjoyed this novel about WWI nursing, WWI tunnelers and post WWI rumrunning and other issues. Highly recommended!

Thank you to the publisher who lent me a time-constrained e-arc via Netgalley, with no obligation. This review is optional and my own opinion.

I found Bluebird to be very interesting. There is so much to learn in this history lesson, so much I knew nothing about. The characters are so vivid and likable but my favorite characters are Adele and Jerry, for so many reasons. I recommend this book to anyone who enjoy romance, history, nursing during WWI and much more.
Thank you for a free copy of this book in return for my honest review.

Many thanks to the publisher and Netgalley for the privilege of reading Bluebird. Bluebird is a love story amid the horrors of the Great War. The characters are so relatable and the action is so real. You will not be able to put this book down!

Thank you to Genevieve Graham, Simon and Schuster and Netgalley for the opportunity to read this book.

After reading a previous Genevieve Graham book and enjoying it, I was excited to try Bluebird. I have always been interested in WW2 history, but haven’t read many books focusing on WW1 history so was excited to read this one. This book was separated into parts, and the first part, which focused on the war, was extremely well done. It sucked me in and I didn’t want to stop reading. The next few parts of the novel, which focus more on rum running and prohibition were good too! The book did get a little slow in the middle, but picked back up again about the 75% mark.

I really enjoyed the characters in this book- Adele and Jerry and John were great main characters, and I enjoyed reading about them. The author did a great job of setting the scene, and it was easy to picture the events of the book in my head while I read.

I really enjoyed this one, and as a Canadian myself, am glad to have had the opportunity to read about a part of Canadian history I didn’t know much about.

This book comes out tomorrow, April 5, 2022, so make sure you grab a copy!

My first historical fiction about the 20s and I loved the rum running aspect. Especially what prohibition was like in Canada. I loved her characters could have used a few more chapters about Cassie though. I wish there was a little more nursing, my guilty pleasure when it comes to historical fiction. Graham is one if not my favourite historical fiction authors and this one is definitely good.

Bluebird by Genevieve Graham

This is a sweet story of romance that checks all the boxes to hit on every historic event of WWI through Canadian prohibition in the early 1900s.

Young adventurous Canadian Adele Savard volunteers as a nurse to help wounded soldiers in Europe during WWI. This plot bounces back and forth to present day Cassie Simmons who works as an assistant curator for a Canadian museum.

It is a quick, easy read with high predictably that a late teen would enjoy. Thanks to #Simon & Schuster, #NetGalley for the ARC

The mystery of the Bailey brothers will suck you in from the very first page. Each character lived such fascinating and troubling lives, that you will be torn between wanting to get more content in the past and present. Not only did I enjoy the story, but I also learned a lot about WWI that I was not aware of.

I'm honestly struggling to write a review for this because I loved this book so much. I felt so many emotions at the turn of every page. I already wish I could read this book for the first time again.

Thanks to NetGalley and Simon & Schuster Canada for granting me an ARC of this extraordinary novel in return for my honest review. Genevieve Graham is one of my favorite writers.
She always does a fantastic job of including factualb, detailed information in her novels. This book was informative, thrilling and gave a lot of little known Canadian historical facts and event. I lived learning about the events if the time period during prohibition and the added romance enhanced the read. Thank you Genevieve for fulfilling my expectations. I highly recomend.

Loved this book. Highly recommend. Paints a vivid portrait of the time. This novel touches upon a few important and interesting historical events: Bluebird nurses, war tunneling, bootlegging & speakeasies, even the Spanish flu. The story weaves together past & present brushing over several struggles of war time effort and people coming together to build something new in the aftermath.

Thank you to Netgalley for the ARC in exchange for an honest review.

I enjoyed this book. As historical fiction, it gave me an insight into the history of Prohibition and rum runners betrween Canada and the USA. The current day story seem a little contrived.

I read an early preview of Bluebird that peaked my interest. I was not disappointed! Bluebird centers on a soldier and a nurse who meet in WW1 and what happens to them after the war ends. This isn't an especially revolutionary story nor will it offer any surprises but it is well written and worth the time to read, especially as lighter fare between heavier reads.

Adele Savard is a young woman from Petite Côte in Canada serving as a Bluebird (nurse) in France during WWI. Jeremiah Bailey is a tunneller from Windsor in the war who gets healed by her when he is injured. After the war, he comes home to find prohibition has taken over his town, and starts the illegal company Bailey Brothers’ Best with his brother John to make and sell whisky. Cassie is their descendant, working in a museum about prohibition in the 21st century. A constructor buys the old Bailey family house and finds dozens of bottles of BBB whisky sealed up in a wall.

The book is divided in half a dozen sections. Each is started by one chapter from Cassie’s POV, and then Adele’s and Jerry’s alternate. I really enjoyed this narration. In Cassie’s chapter, we always read about some discovery or some event from the past, a mystery for her to elucidate, which is then explained “in real time” in Adele’s and Jerry’s chapters. It made for continuous mysteries and a bit of suspense, always wanting to keep reading to understand how, exactly, Adele and Jerry got to the point Cassie mentioned.

For example, we know they end up together, because, well, Cassie exists. But it doesn’t happen in a straightforward way, so for many chapters you’re left wondering how it will happen.

This is the fourth book I’ve read by Genevieve Graham, I think, and it’s probably my favourite so far. It definitely cements her place in my favourite authors by whom I’ll read anything.

Loved this book a beautiful exploration of love and what happens to the people when war is done. How does one go back to normal life.