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05.09.2024
Reviewed by Emma Crowley In the darkest days of war, can a land girl’s wish come true? England, 1943. With Christmas days away, the land g...
31.08.2024
Reviewed by Emma Crowley At the imposing iron gates of Auschwitz, twenty-one-year-old Hodaya clings to her mama and papa, her little sister...
22.08.2024
Reviewed by Emma Crowley Present day. Arriving in sun-drenched Caccipulia, Callie grips the faded restaurant menu in trembling hands. Found ...
Reviewed by Emma Crowley Walking across the warm terracotta tiles of her family house, the scent of roses and fresh rosemary in the air, Luc...
19.08.2024
Reviewed by Emma Crowley Hana’s home has gone up in flames; the little bakery at the heart of the city is no more. Smoke curls into the sky ...
Reviewed by Emma Crowley As the darkest shadows of the war spread, nurse Margarete Weiss is sent away to work in a mother and baby home in a...
11.08.2024
Reviewed by Emma Crowley Deaf since the age of five, Mina has had to fight for everything she has, including her place at an Austrian univer...
07.08.2024
Reviewed by Emma Crowley A chance encounter is about to change everything for Thea Wynter. The moment she arrived on the Isle of Skye, life ...
06.08.2024
Reviewed by Emma Crowley When the Germans seize Paris, its peaceful streets fill with terror overnight, and nowhere is safe. Desperate to he...
04.08.2024
Reviewed by Emma Crowley Evelina has already lost so much: her sons are away fighting, her husband is dead, and most of her friends have fle...
03.08.2024
Reviewed by Emma Crowley Young linguist Elisabeth has been working for the British secret service since the war began, rescuing downed pilot...
01.08.2024
Reviewed by Emma Crowley A mile outside the Cotswolds, everyone knows everyone in Honeystone, and for many years the villagers have lived q...
30.07.2024
Reviewed by Emma Crowley Ottilie Oakcroft can’t imagine living anywhere but the village of Thimblebury. Since moving there after her husband...
28.07.2024
As it's the start of my week off I've decided to celebrate with a giveaway for this bundle of Summery themed goodies. I'm soundi...
27.07.2024
Reviewed by Emma Crowley Scrabble fan Jo always seems to pick the wrong guys. Now she's moved to the Yorkshire village of Hebbleswick, a...
Reviewed by Emma Crowley In the cosy Yorkshire village of Hebbleswick, single mum Taylor dreams of a fashion design career, but she spends h...
16.07.2024
Reviewed by Emma Crowley When Boston-born Erin arrives in wind-tossed Roone Bay, she’s heart-sore, tired and lonely. Her marriage is over: s...
13.07.2024
Reviewed by Emma Crowley Lili Rodenberg and her husband Marius run the Edel, Berlin’s most glamorous hotel. For its wealthy guests, it is an...
08.07.2024
Reviewed by Emma Crowley ‘Dear Diary, I have so much to keep secret. Maybe I am cruel to leave. But I have no choice…’ Thirty-one-year old ...
29.06.2024
Reviewed by Emma Crowley Claire arrives at her new job as researcher at a grand English country house, nursing a broken heart. But tucked i...
12.06.2024
Reviewed by Emma Crowley Del moved to the south of France three years ago and hasn’t looked back. She’s found new friends, new purpose, and ...
07.06.2024
Reviewed by Emma Crowley It could happen to you. Anya is enjoying a relaxing bath when she hears a noise in the roof. Through the open bath...
03.06.2024
Reviewed by Emma Crowley After losing her sense of self recovering from a serious operation, event planner Deb Sutherland is desperate to re...
28.05.2024
Reviewed by Emma Crowley Among the emerald hills of the Lake District sits the village of Thimblebury and Wordsworth Cottage, its garden bur...
23.05.2024
Reviewed by Emma Crowley Emilie’s heart stops as she takes in her childhood sweetheart hunched in a tattered prisoner’s uniform, the light l...
21.05.2024
Reviewed by Emma Crowley The race to save the vintage flower van is on! Flowers are Florrie Appleton’s life, so when her beloved Aunt Ada p...
19.05.2024
Reviewed by Emma Crowley Poland, 1943: Every day, Irena is terrified as she serves the Nazis who drink in her town’s hotel. But with war rag...
13.05.2024
Reviewed by Emma Crowley Dublin, 1956. When Mary Kate Ryan loses the love of her life, she’s not sure how she can keep going. Feeling comp...
10.05.2024
Reviewed by Emma Crowley By day, Betty works cheerfully with her best friend Sally, now the manager of the salvage depot. By night, they bot...
06.05.2024
As it's a bank holiday weekend and the start of my week off work I've decided to celebrate with a giveaway for this bundle of goodie...
05.05.2024
Reviewed by Emma Crowley Berlin, 1944. Edith Falkenstein weeps with joy when the crowds of brave women protesting on Rosenstrasse manage t...
02.05.2024
Reviewed by Emma Crowley With the country on the brink of war, single mother Jean embraces her ten-year-old daughter, Valerie, before she pu...
30.04.2024
Reviewed by Emma Crowley Working in the camp’s munitions factory, Adela Rubenstein discovers the underground network fighting against the d...
28.04.2024
Reviewed by Emma Crowley England, present day. Paige is devastated when her reclusive but beloved Aunt Florence dies – the only family she’...
25.04.2024
Reviewed by Emma Crowley When Grace arrives tired, tearful and rain-soaked in Roone Bay, the little Irish village where her grandmother Cait...
24.04.2024
Reviewed by Emma Crowley Her dream holiday is his everyday life. His dream holiday is her normal life. What happens when they collide? All...
18.04.2024
Reviewed by Emma Crowley Can she finally find the home she’s always wanted? Emma Wilson is running from a broken marriage after her life has...
16.04.2024
Reviewed by Emma Crowley The war is raging in Europe. These girls will do everything they can on the home front – but is a happy ever after...
14.04.2024
Reviewed by Emma Crowley Germany, 1939: When Rosa Herzelfeld boards the SS St Louis, she doesn’t believe its promise of freedom. Surely the...
08.04.2024
Reviewed by Emma Crowley Books can change lives, even in wartime. . . When World War II breaks out, Carrie Anderson sets up a bookstall at ...