In 2003, a postcard is received with four names on it, and no return address. The four names are four members of a Jewish family whose lives were torn apart by the Holocaust. Years later, Anne is pregnant, and on bed rest, as her mother tells her the story of their family, her grandparents and …
Set during WWII, this is the story of a child being sent to America to escape the bombing in London, and how that choice impacts the lives of two families forever. 11 year old Beatrix is sent by boat to Boston in 1940, where she stays with the Gregorys, going from her working class parents …
"The untold story of the six women who in programmed the world's first modern computer"When Kathy Kleiman came across photographs of the earliest computers, she saw women posed in the pictures. Told that they were just "refrigerator models", posed there just to make the machine look good, she wasn't convinced. Something about them looked professional …
Born into money in the Mid-West, Nanee finds her true home in Paris. So when war breaks out and the German tanks enter the city, rather than leaving, she stays and joins the Resistance. She helps get famous artists targeted by the Nazi's out of the country and also carries messages, being dubbed The Postmistress. …
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Italy, 1938, under Mussolini. Clara, 11, wakes in a new dingy city apartment to find their mother hasn't returned from a job the previous night. She goes looking for her mother and turns right at the door, and later her little brother Pippo ,7, wakes alone and also goes looking, turning left. A chain of …
While sorting through her mother's house following her death, Becky finds a letter from a long lost relative asking for help. Rather than returning home, and feeling like she wants to do something that makes her feel useful, she heads to Cornwall to help out her mother's Cousin Olivia. As Becky's life catches up with …
The American Library in Paris has always been a sanctuary for Odile Souchet, so when she grows up, she applies for a job there. But it's 1939, and things are about to change for everyone in France and all over the world. Odile and her co-workers try to keep the library open as the Germans …
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In Berlin in 1941, Hanni realises that the world as she knows it is coming to an end. With her mother bed ridden, she chooses to stay by her side and face the end, but is determined to get her 12 year old daughter out before the Nazi's get her. Knowing she can't send her …
Cara Walden is the beautiful starlet daughter of a well known Hollywood director, who flees to London with her half brother Gray when he's targeted by the Hollywood Blacklist. He's fleeing political persecution, and she's fleeing the memory of an affair that left her used and pregnant. In London, they fall in with Left Wing …
I think what strikes you first about de Bernieres is how human is writing is. It's mundane, describes the ordinary, or perhaps ordinary people caught up in history, in change. While war wages around the sleeping, pastoral island of Cephallonia, for example, goats must still be milked, fathers scolded and meals shared, distant politics debated, …
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