The Blue-Washed Cottage

The Blue-Washed Cottage by Josephine Bolechala

The blue-washed cottage was home.

The harshness and tragedies of war reveal the true characters of Anna and her family and provide the impetus for a journey to the new lives which they had not prepared for nor dreamed possible.

In 1939, in a small village in Poland, Anna Kowal’s meager ten hectares hold a few buildings and a small straw-thatched cottage. It was her alone – since her husband left to find them a better life in Canada. With only the food and income her acreage provided and the packages sent by her husband from Canada, raising two daughters, a niece and a head-strong son was a struggle, but their faith kept them strong and stalwart. Her story is told in Anna and Her Daughters,

Martin was surrounded by deep faith and family love in his mother’s blue-washed cottage. Martin’s world is violently shaken at the tender age of five. He can find no peace until he solves the mystery of what happened in the Forbidden Forest. His singular quest for truth spans decades from 1927 to the years leading up to the World Expo in 1967. Will Martin find that illusive peace as he recounts his story to the beautiful Emilie?

Follow their stories in this volume of family love and redemption.

ISBN: 978-1-77257-469-2 (PB) – Published May 2026