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A breathtaking tale of motherhood, family and survival in war-torn Norway.

In the serene beauty of the Norwegian fjords, Asta Nilsen’s world is suddenly shattered when German forces invade her homeland. Caring for her ailing father in their remote red cabin while her brother flees to Scotland to join the Allied forces, Asta struggles to survive...

In this poignant tale of loss and redemption, a young woman’s wartime secrets threaten to unravel her carefully rebuilt life.

1937. On the eve of her debutante season in London, Lucia Blake rebels against her domineering father and his fascist politics and runs away to France. Breaking the promise to always look after her, she leaves behind her...

“Oh, this book! How many times can your heart be shattered in just one novel?... riveting and at times so intense it was physically painful... have plenty of tissues.” Reader review,

New England, 1992. Sophie’s hand trembles as she places the birthday card on to the creamy wood of her dresser – this one postmarked from far away, and signed with...

In a world at war, a young woman must face her darkest fears…

1941. After the death of her beloved mother, nineteen-year-old Romilly Brooks impulsively accepts a job as a nanny, accompanying eight-year-old Freddie and his grandmother on a sea voyage from war-torn London to the safety of New York. From the first, Romilly is entranced by the...

In an English coastal village, two women, divided by decades, each haunted by their own tragedies, find themselves drawn together by a mysterious wartime death.

Shattered by a recent bereavement, Minna and husband Tom retreat to an isolated village on the Dorset coast, hoping to find the solitude that will allow them to cope with their loss....

A secret family history of love, anguish and betrayal.

After her beloved grandmother Rozenn’s death, Morane is heartbroken to learn that her sister is the sole inheritor of the family home in Cornwall—while she herself has been written out of the will. With both her business and her relationship with her sister on the rocks, Morane becomes...

Propaganda offers her a fresh start—but can she stay safe in a world at war?

Anna Hall was a beautiful and skilled Second World War air force operative, guiding RAF pilots during the Battle of Britain—before a bomb killed her sister and left her disfigured. In the aftermath, haunted by her failure to keep her sister safe, Anna retreats to a...

“The Lines We Leave Behind is mesmerizing; a deeply affecting story of treachery, deception, sacrifice, and loss. Beautifully written and completely absorbing…” —Karen Dionne, author of the internationally bestselling The Marsh King’s Daughter

England, 1947: A young woman finds herself under close observation in an insane asylum, charged with a...

Two sisters must learn to make peace with the past—and each other.

In the wake of the 2005 London bombings, Sara returns to her childhood home in Oxfordshire to find that her sister, Polly, has finally come back after being missing for over ten years. Why now—and where has she been?

As girls, the two sisters could not have been more different—only...

Restless, troubled Rosamond Hunter has spent most of her life running away from the past, filled with guilt about her involuntary role in her mother’s death. When her nursing job brings her back to Fairfleet, her childhood home, to care for an elderly refugee, she is forced to confront the ghosts that have haunted her for so long.

Her patient,...

Eine junge Frau. Ein altes Landhaus. Das Echo einer Schuld ...


Die Krankenschwester Rosamund Hunter nimmt eine Anstellung im Landhaus Fairfleet an, um den im Sterben liegenden Besitzer Benny Gault zu pflegen. Sie verrät dabei nicht, dass sie selbst in dem Haus aufwuchs und nun zurückgekehrt ist, um sich den Gespenstern ihrer Vergangenheit zu...

London 1940. Young schoolgirl Rachel is alone and adrift in a stricken city as the Blitz reaches its most deadly stage and thousands die in nightly air raids. Her father is under arrest as a suspected spy, her mother seriously ill in hospital. As bombers pound the city each night, she struggles to survive in the blackout alongside London’s...

February 1945. Europe is in ruins and the Red Army is searing its way across Germany’s eastern marches, revenging itself upon a petrified population. The war is over, but for some the fight for survival is only just beginning. Alix, the aristocratic daughter of a German resistance fighter, is alone and desperate to flee before the Reds come. But...