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by Jane Johnson
Published Jan 2021
Read ReviewsA broken family, a house of secrets - an entrancing tale of love and courage set during the Second World War.
by Amanda Hodgkinson
Published Apr 2012
Read ReviewsA tour de force that echoes modern classics like Suite Francaise and The Postmistress.
by Jane Smiley
Published Jun 2011
Read ReviewsA riveting new novel from the Pulitzer Prizewinner that traverses the intimate landscape of one womans life, from the 1880s to World War II.
by Howard Norman
Published May 2011
Read ReviewsSeventeen-year-old Wyatt Hillyer is suddenly orphaned when his parents commit suicide, causing him to move to a small-town, and setting in motion the novel's chain of life-altering passions, including the fathering of a beloved daughter.
by Lauren Belfer
Published Apr 2011
Read ReviewsFrom the New York Times bestselling author of City of Light comes a compelling, richly detailed tale of passion and intrigue set in New York City during the tumultuous early days of World War II.
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society
by Mary Ann Shaffer, Annie Barrows
Published May 2009
Read ReviewsWritten with warmth and humor as a series of letters, this novel is a celebration of the written word in all its guises, and of finding connection in the most surprising ways.
by Owen Sheers
Published Feb 2009
Read ReviewsImbued with immense imaginative breadth and confidence, Owen Sheers's debut novel unfolds with the pace and intensity of a thriller. A hymn to the glorious landscape of the Welsh border territories and a portrait of a community under siege.
by Irene Nemirovsky
Published Apr 2007
Read ReviewsThe first two stories of a masterwork once thought lost, written by a pre-WWII bestselling author who was deported to Auschwitz and died before her work could be completed.
by Sebastian Faulks
Published Jul 2000
Read ReviewsSet in England and France during the darkest days of World War II, Charlotte Gray, like Birdsong, depicts a complex love affair that is both shaped and thwarted by war.
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