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This beautifully-written time-slip novel explores memory loss, grief and family relationships. It’s narrated in a lively 21st-century voice by Cosmo,…
Winter Games
A crossover novel between chick-lit and historical drama, and charting specific and interrelating events in the lives of a grandmother…
The Plum Tree
Wiseman writes engagingly about WWII from the point of view of a seventeen-year-old German girl on the home front. At…
Love in the Years of Lunacy
Love in the Years of Lunacy is a wonderfully written World War II story of siblings who share their love…
The Secret of the Nightingale Palace
In her second novel, Dana Sachs delivers a satisfying story about an estranged grandmother and granddaughter who are able to…
The Light Behind the Window
Lucinda Riley’s The Light Behind the Window is a romance that frequently pushes its sentimentality to the point of melodrama.…
Francesca Pascal
Francesca Pascal, an artist, is caught in Paris during the German occupation. In a shocking accident, her daughter is shot…
The Hunger Angel
The fact that this book’s German title, Atemschaukel, translates as something like “Breath Swing,” while the British edition is titled…
The Deception of Livvy Higgs
“If there’s one thing life has taught me,” muses 80-year-old Livvy Higgs to herself as she catches her neighbour, Gen,…
The Evacuee
Rural Staffordshire in September 1939, suddenly finds itself host to refugees from the slums of Birmingham. Children that are from…
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