SYNOPSIS
A woman’s future is determined by fate and choice in a gripping WWII novel about danger, triumph, and second chances by the New York Times bestselling author of The Venice Sketchbook and The Tuscan Child.
London, 1940. Bombs fall and Josie Banks’s world crumbles around her. Her overbearing husband, Stan, is unreachable, called to service. Her home, a ruin of rubble and ash. Josie’s beloved tearoom boss has been killed, and Josie herself is injured, with nothing left and nowhere to go.
Evacuated to the English countryside, Josie ends up at the estate of the aristocratic Miss Harcourt, a reluctant host to the survivors of the Blitz. Awed as she is by the magnificent landscape, Josie sees opportunity. Josie convinces Miss Harcourt to let her open a humble tea shop, seeing it as a chance for everyone to begin again. When Josie meets Mike Johnson, a handsome Canadian pilot stationed at a neighboring bomber base, a growing intimacy brings her an inner peace she’s never felt before. Then Stan returns from the war.
Now a threat looms larger than anyone imagined. And a dangerous secret is about to upend Josie’s life again. Her newfound courage will be put to the test if she is to emerge, like a survivor, triumphant.
REVIEW
War changes people
When our lives are interrupted by war or other trauma, only one thing is certain. We will be forever changed by what happens in our personal lives and in the world around us.
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How true your words are Barbara. My husband’s family suffered much through World War 2. My father-in-law was forced into a labor camp, my brother-in-law was taken to Siberia, their home in Austria was seized, my mother-in-law was raped and she had to take care of 5 children in a chicken coup. 2 of them were her sister’s who died after trying to abort the child conceived when she was raped. But a mighty miracle took place that I attribute to the prayers of this family, especially of my father-in-law who was a Lutheran pastor: All of them survived, able to be reunited and well enough to immigrate to the US. They thrived here and did well except for bi-polar afflictions in a brother-in-law and in my husband.
Yes, war changes things, and it seems ready to be ignited once again: George Washington had a dream or a vision (I can’t remember which) and it revealed the wars that America would face…. He saw the civil war and the last one had many of our cities burning. Oh that God’s people will be kept hidden in Him, yet testifying of God’s goodness and doing His works.
May the Lord bless you and keep you and your family dear Barbara.
❤️Michele
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