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A Rose and a Promise
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Following the main character, Cadi, as the Second World War continues through the spring of 1944, initially there are many threads simmering just outside ...Read Review
The Vienna Writers Circle
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The German annexation of Austria in 1938 plunges its cosmopolitan European capital into the nightmare of authoritarian restrictions and genocide that had already gathered ...Read Review
The Secrets of Rochester Place
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Corinne is a present-day emergency call handler who is phoned by a woman named Mary, who says a girl is buried in rubble ...Read Review
A Daughter’s War
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Bolton, England, 1939. Nasty brute Ivan Rushmore keeps daughter Renee, aged 17, on such a short lead that she hardly knows what day it is, ...Read Review
The Wartime Bookshop
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Hertfordshire, England during the early days of World War Two, in the fictional large village of Churchdown. Alice Lovell moves to Churchdown with ...Read Review
Christmas with the Wartime Midwives
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Many unmarried mothers in England during World War Two had to make very tough decisions regarding their baby’s future; for most their ...Read Review
A Christmas Miracle for the Railway Girls (The Railway Girls Series, 6)
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England 1942. This sixth in series offers only slim pickings for railway enthusiasts, and while disciples of the Thomas oeuvre will no doubt be ...Read Review
The Air Raid Girls: Wartime Brides (The Air Raid Girls Book 3)
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In choosing this trio of young women as the central characters to create a story around the events of the Yorkshire Blitz, Holmes ...Read Review
A Mother’s Betrayal
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This novel is about a woman named Mara, who is married into a 19th-century family that has abused her from the start. Her ...Read Review
Incomparable World (Black Britain: Writing Back, 1)
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First published by Quartet in 1996, this is a rollicking account of Black lives in London and Middlesex during a specific period in the ...Read Review
