⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Thank you to Century Publishing (Penguin Books) for the opportunity to read a digital review copy of The House of Hidden Letters by Izzy Broom. The book is already available in ebook and the paperback will be published next month. Synopsis: For sale: Greek cottage. Price: One Euro. Skye doesn’t make impulsive decisions. But… Continue reading The House of Hidden Letters by Izzy Broom
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The Resistance Knitting Club by Jenny O’Brien
Guernsey, 2010. After a stroke, an elderly woman shocks her family by speaking perfect French – a language they never knew she possessed. As her granddaughter unravels seventy years of silence, a hidden wartime story emerges… Paris, 1941. After her brother is declared missing in action at Dunkirk, eighteen-year-old Lenny Gallienne vanishes into Churchill’s secret army. In… Continue reading The Resistance Knitting Club by Jenny O’Brien
Joy for the Steel Girls by Michelle Rawlins
As war rages, can a new arrival bring them together? Winter, 1941 With the darkest nights of the Sheffield Blitz behind them, the Steel Girls are looking ahead to a new chapter. Hattie is thrilled to learn that she is expecting a bundle of joy with her husband, John. But as her father continues to fan the… Continue reading Joy for the Steel Girls by Michelle Rawlins
Never Tear Us Apart by Rowan Coleman
A spellbinding tale of love, strength and sacrifice from the Sunday Times bestselling author. Based on the gorgeous island of Malta in WWII, this is a story about the power of fate, and how sometimes, in order to find yourself – and to find love – you must first lose everything else. . . Fate has brought… Continue reading Never Tear Us Apart by Rowan Coleman
The President’s Wife by Anna Stuart
December 1941: ‘Pearl Harbor has been bombed.’ My husband, President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s, voice shakes as he tells me the devastating news. We both know what this means: America is at war. Eleanor Roosevelt takes a deep breath. This is her third term as First Lady and she knows what it takes to lead her country alongside charming… Continue reading The President’s Wife by Anna Stuart
The Seeker of Lost Paintings by Sarah Freethy
Rome 1939Arriving in Rome to work for the wealthy Montefalco family, Maddalena is homesick and alone. She finds solace – and love – in the beauty of the city, but as the war in Nazi-occupied Italy rages, she must make a devastating choice. London, 1997After her mother Maddalena’s death, Beatrice Fremont discovers a fragment of… Continue reading The Seeker of Lost Paintings by Sarah Freethy
Beattie Cavendish and the White Pearl Club by Mary-Jane Riley
1948. The shadow of war still lingers over Britain and Beattie Cavendish, former Secret Operations Executive agent, refuses to settle into civilian life. When offered an undercover role at the newly formed GCHQ, the nerve centre of Britain’s intelligence network, she doesn’t hesitate. Her first mission is to infiltrate the powerful Bowen family and find… Continue reading Beattie Cavendish and the White Pearl Club by Mary-Jane Riley
Dear Miss Lake by AJ Pearce
From the author of the Sunday Times bestseller Dear Mrs Bird, AJ Pearce’s Dear Miss Lake returns us to wartime London where Emmy Lake is facing her greatest challenge yet . . . England, July 1944. After nearly five years of war the nation is weary, and the readers of Woman’s Friend need agony aunt Emmy Lake more than ever.… Continue reading Dear Miss Lake by AJ Pearce
A Schooling in Murder by Andrew Taylor @AndrewJRTaylor @HarperFiction
England, May 1945 Monkshill Park School for Girls seems a world away from the violence that engulfed Europe during World War II. Yet its lonely, decaying grounds have witnessed a murder. Annabel Warnock, a teacher with a secretive past, left for the holidays and never came back. Both teachers and girls assume she simply walked… Continue reading A Schooling in Murder by Andrew Taylor @AndrewJRTaylor @HarperFiction
The Treasures by Harriet Evans @VikingBooksUK
Every family’s story starts somewhere.Alice and Tom’s begins here. On the eve of her sixteenth birthday, Alice Jansen collects her treasures – the keepsakes, figurines and mementoes that help her make sense of her fragile family. But the next day her heart is broken, and the final treasure, a gift from her father, is lost.… Continue reading The Treasures by Harriet Evans @VikingBooksUK
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