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The Copper Road: Beyond the Promise (Shire's Union) Paperback – July 23, 2020

by Richard Buxton (Author)
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Shire is far from home, his old life in Victorian England a fading memory. He’s battled through war-torn America to keep a cherished promise to his childhood companion. Now she’s pushing him away, while the war won’t let him go. Fighting for the Union, Shire must survive the brutal campaign for Atlanta and try to imagine a future without her.

Clara is free from her husband but not from his ghost. After a violent end to an abusive marriage, she struggles to keep her home in the Tennessee hills as the war steals away its treasures and its people.

Tod, a captured Rebel, escapes in Pennsylvania. His encounters on the long road back to his regiment cast the Civil War in a different light. He begins to question his will to fight.

Three young lives become wrapped in the Rebels’ desperate need for copper. Friendships, loyalty and love will be tested beyond breaking point. Shire has new promises to keep.


The Copper Road is the second novel from award winning writer Richard Buxton. Book one of Shire’s Union, Whirligig, was shortlisted for the Rubery International Book Award.
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  1. Book 2 of 3
    Shire's Union
  2. Print length
    442 pages
  3. Language
    English
  4. Publication date
    July 23, 2020
  5. Dimensions
    5 x 1.11 x 8 inches
  6. ISBN-10
    0995769338
  7. ISBN-13
    978-0995769335
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This book was entered in The Wishing Shelf Book Awards. This is what our readers thought:
Title: The Copper Road, Beyond the Promise
Author: Richard Buxton
Star Rating: 5 Stars
Number of Readers: 22
Stats
Editing: 9/10
Writing Style: 8/10
Content: 9/10
Cover: 10/10
Of the 22 readers:
21 would read another book by this author.
22 thought the cover was good or excellent.
22 felt it was easy to follow.
21 would recommend this book to another reader to try.
Of all the readers, 7 felt the author's strongest skill was 'plotting a story'.
Of all the readers, 10 felt the author's strongest skill was 'developing the characters'.
Of all the readers, 5 felt the author's strongest skill was 'writing style'.
19 felt the pacing was good or excellent.
20 thought the author understood the readership and what they wanted.
Readers' Comments
"A character-driven saga enriched by the author's knowledge of setting." Male reader, aged 55
"Brutal, gritty, and utterly compelling, this is a must-read for anybody who is interested in American history - or simply enjoys a wonderful novel." Female reader, aged 52
"I was fully immersed in this story from the first page. The author's knowledge of the time and place is remarkable and this shone through on every page. The plot is intricate and
cleverly crafted, but it is the fully developed characters which make this novel stand out." Male reader, aged 37
"A very enjoyable story. I was enticed into reading it by the cover which looks amazing. This is the sort of novel you can easily get lost in - in a good way! I would happily read another book by this talented author." Female reader, aged 69
To Sum It Up:
'A compelling historical saga packed with unforgettable characters. A FINALIST and highly recommended!' The Wishing Shelf Book Awards

About the Author

Richard lives with his family in the South Downs, Sussex, England. He completed an MA in Creative Writing at Chichester University in 2014. He has an abiding relationship with America, having studied at Syracuse University, New York State, in the late eighties. His short stories have won the Exeter Story Prize, the Bedford International Writing Competition and the Nivalis Short Story Award. The Copper Road is the second novel in the Shire's Union trilogy. The first book of the trilogy, Whirligig, was shortlisted for the Rubery International Book Award. To learn more about Richard's writing visit https: //www.richardbuxton.net.

Product details

  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Ocoee Publishing (July 23, 2020)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 442 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0995769338
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0995769335
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1.05 pounds
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5 x 1.11 x 8 inches
  • Customer Reviews:
    4.1 4.1 out of 5 stars 31 ratings

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Richard lives with his family in the South Downs, Sussex, England. He completed an MA in Creative Writing at Chichester University in 2014 where he began developing his ideas for the Shire's Union trilogy. He has an abiding relationship with America, having studied at Syracuse University, New York State, in the late eighties. His short stories have won the Exeter Story Prize, the Bedford International Writing Competition and the Nivalis Short Story Award.

Richard’s first novel, Whirligig (book one of Shire's Union) was published in 2017 and shortlisted for the Rubery International Book Award.

The Copper Road (book two of Shire's Union) was a finalist in the 2020 Wishing Shelf Book Award.

Tigers in Blue (book three of Shire's Union) was published in December 2023.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Review for HFVBT
Reviewed in the United States on September 28, 2020
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This excellent novel series brings to vivid life the travails of the common Civil War soldier through an uncommon Englishman, Shire. In the first novel, The Whirligig-Keeping the Promise, Shire leaves home to make the long journey to America in order to aid his childhood companion and to keep the promise he will always protect her. Naïve and trusting, once he arrives in the country, he joins the Union army hoping it will carry him to where Clara lives in Tennessee. I recommend you read the first novel to get the full effect of the narrative, the coming of age of Shire and the change in him as he is honed into a soldier for the Union.
The Copper Road-Beyond the Promise reveals not only the treachery behind Clara’s marriage, but the brutality civilians suffered at the hands of soldiers. Shire may have kept his promise, getting to her battlefield by battlefield, step by bloody step, but fate has not done with them yet. The level of detail, the weaving of narrative, the sheer adventure of 19th century America comes alive in these vividly told novels. I could not put them down!
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Shirley McAllister
4.0 out of 5 stars Loyalties
Reviewed in the United States on July 27, 2020
This book is about loyalties and men. It is about the horrors of war and a soldier’s loyalty to his fellow soldiers and his cause. It is also about a girl named Clara and her friendship with two men Shire her English friend fighting for the Union Army and her friend Tod fighting with the Confederate Army.

The book goes into detail with the war, Shire’s unit on the Union side and Tod’s unit on the Confederate side. The fellow soldiers of each, how Shire and Tod meet each other. There is more than that. The men bare their thoughts and their fears to each other.

When Shire’s life is spared by Tod and he is taken prisoner by Tod they become friends. When Shire is offered a pardon by a high ranking Confederate if he rescue’s Clara from a dangerous situation he asks for Tod to accompany him on the mission to save Clara and to bring back a load of copper from her copper mine to use in Confederate bullets. He did not know that Tod had met Clara on a Riverboat and that they had an affair.

The events that took place during that trip tell the rest of the story.

This was an interesting book telling much of the civil war history. What happened to the slaves when the war started. What happened to the plantations when the men all went to war and the slaves left.

This was a good book and I would recommend it.

Thanks to Richard Buxton, BooksGoSocial and NetGalley for allowing me to read an advance copy in exchange for an honest review.
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Big Red
5.0 out of 5 stars Well-written
Reviewed in the United States on May 15, 2021
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I enjoyed this American Civil War story very much due to its insight into the war and the complex tangle of relationships. Although this read well as a stand-alone book, I could tell there was one before it that introduced the characters. I suggest reading them in order. Good book.
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Novels Alive
5.0 out of 5 stars Hollywood Needs to Come Calling
Reviewed in the United States on October 14, 2020
The Copper Road: Beyond the Promise is the second book in the Shire's Union series and I highly recommend you start on the first book, Whirligig – Keeping The Promise: A Heartbreaking Saga in Time of War, as I was a little lost when I first started reading this book.

However, once I caught up, I was swept in the grandeur of this expansive saga of heartbreak, loss, longing, loyalty, ambition, avariciousness, zealousness, love, and so much more as the Civil War continues to divide a nation and her people into its third year of war.

Told from the perspective of three main characters, Shire, who left England to follow his childhood friend to America and keep his promise to her, now caught up in America's Civil War, fighting for the Union and pushed away by Clara’s trauma. Loyal, brave, steadfast, and heartsick to his core.

Clara, the daughter of a Duke, who left England to marry Taylor, a Confederate Colonel, who turns out to be a volatile, abusive son-of-a—miscreant. On top of that, he may be a bigamist as well.

In Book 1, Shire goes AWOL to rescue Clara from her brutal husband, by killing Taylor before Taylor could kill Clara. Clara has a deep affinity for Comrie, the Tennessee home she once resided with Taylor, and the former slaves who still live on the land, namely Moses, Matilde, Hany, and Cele. Still reeling and mending from her abuse and haunted by Taylor's ghost, she pushes the one man she knows will always love her—Shire—away and back to the battlefields of war.

And Tod, the captured Rebel, whom Shire had given a small kindness to, who escapes from prison and finds his way back to his regiment, but not before receiving some guidance from an Amish man along the way. This advice seems to color every action for Tod—whether he wants it to or not. Along Tod's journey back to his regiment, he has another fateful encounter that will forever impact the lives of all three of our main characters.

These three characters make up a Venn diagram no one would envy and ends in a collision course bound for disaster.

With the Confederates' backs against the wall and fighting for their lives with little left to throw at the Union Army, the need for copper, something Clara has ample of, is thrust into the forefront and becomes a conflict of epic proportions.

History lovers will love the battle sequences portrayed in great detail, including the feelings of those who fought—the gut-wrenching angst, the debilitating fear, the steadfast loyalty, the religious zealousness, the mind-numbing hopelessness—but it is the specifics of how the battles were fought that Mr. Buxton truly excels. The research he must have done to illustrate those battles in such sweeping accounts, is mindboggling.

Mr. Buxton is an immense talent, and his descriptions and details about conditions for those who fought during the Civil War were vivid and true-to-life—like viewing the scenes as a documentarian would with a video camera—not missing even the smallest of details, but not mired in the mud in those inconsequential specifics which amount to nothing.

I have come to love each main character—and some secondary characters as well—immensely and am waiting not-so-patiently for the third book in this series, having been left on one very big cliffhanger. By the end of the book, we are left with only eight short months before Lee surrenders at Appomattox Court House, signally the end of the brutal national conflict. The last book of this series is bound to be a humdinger. But I will have to pacify myself by reading the first book in the series instead to catch-up on all the details I missed by starting this series out of sequence.

To say this book is epic, would be an understatement. If Hollywood isn't calling yet, they should be because this book—nay series—is begging to be optioned for film.

*I was provided an ARC of this book in exchange for an honest review.
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John P S Brinded
5.0 out of 5 stars The continuing saga of a reluctant hero.
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on September 27, 2020
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In this second book in the Shires Union saga we again accompany our reluctant hero, the Bedfordshire lad, who traveled to America and became embroiled in a War not his own to save his aristocratic love. Things do not transpire as he would like and we follow the dilemmas and decisions he makes. New characters appear who will make a notable difference to the direction of the tale . Coincidence and fate collide in a roller coaster of events. Battle scenes are compelling and leave you worrying for those characters you have come to regard. A worthy thundering sequel. A+++++
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Tomohawkkid
4.0 out of 5 stars A good sequel
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on October 24, 2020
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A good follow up to the first book.
The plot links are a little difficult to believe, but otherwise the story holds one’s attention to the end.
A good read as a sequel and some interesting insights into the period/events.
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