Wow but wow but wow! It took a while to get into this, but once I was hooked I was hooked! This poor girl was so mixed up with so may emotions and situations, but once she worked through all of them (about 80% of the way through!) she had her head on straight and did what needed to be done. Loved the characters, loved the detailed writing to help me "see" the locations, loved the history mixed in to teach me things that didn't come up in my class books & loved the ending. Highly recommend!
For American Claire Stewart, joining the French Resistance sounded as romantic as the storylines she hopes will one day grace the novels she wants to write. But when she finds herself stranded on English shores, with five French Jewish children she smuggled across the channel before Nazis stormed Paris, reality feels more akin to fear. With nowhere to go, Claire throws herself on the mercy of an estranged aunt, begging Lady Miranda Langford to take the children into her magnificent estate. Heavily weighted with grief of her own, Miranda reluctantly agrees . . . if Claire will stay to help. Though desperate to return to France and the man she loves, Claire has few options. But her tumultuous upbringing―spent in the refuge of novels with fictional friends―has ill-prepared her for the daily dramas of raising children, or for the way David Campbell, a fellow American boarder, challenges her notions of love. Nor could she foresee how the tentacles of war will invade their quiet haven, threatening all who have come to call Bluebell Wood home and risking the only family she’s ever known. (photo and description at Amazon)
I'm thinking it's time for another mystery thriller ...
Keep up summer reading!
Melissa
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