'A POWERFUL, PANORAMIC NOVEL OF WAR AND ITS AFTERMATH' SUNDAY TIMES
'What a love story' Elizabeth Buchan
'Gripping and heartfelt' Elisabeth Gifford
'Entirely convincing and authentic' Leonora Nattrass
UNITED BY WAR. DIVIDED BY A SECRET.
Berlin,1938. English spy Harry Taverner and Jewish-American photographer Anna Cantrell spend the night dancing at Berlin's most elegant hotel as the Nazi shadow rises over Europe. Neither expects they will ever meet again.
But once peace is declared, they reunite in the ruins of Berlin, where Anna is searching for her missing children. With the blockade tightening and the Soviets set on conquest, Harry and Anna walk a treacherous line between love and duty, loyalty and betrayal.
And as the Cold War dawns, they are bound together by a secret that will only be revealed decades later, when Berlin finds itself on the cusp of another transformation...
Genre: Historical Mystery
'What a love story' Elizabeth Buchan
'Gripping and heartfelt' Elisabeth Gifford
'Entirely convincing and authentic' Leonora Nattrass
UNITED BY WAR. DIVIDED BY A SECRET.
Berlin,1938. English spy Harry Taverner and Jewish-American photographer Anna Cantrell spend the night dancing at Berlin's most elegant hotel as the Nazi shadow rises over Europe. Neither expects they will ever meet again.
But once peace is declared, they reunite in the ruins of Berlin, where Anna is searching for her missing children. With the blockade tightening and the Soviets set on conquest, Harry and Anna walk a treacherous line between love and duty, loyalty and betrayal.
And as the Cold War dawns, they are bound together by a secret that will only be revealed decades later, when Berlin finds itself on the cusp of another transformation...
Genre: Historical Mystery
Praise for this book
"What a love story and what a setting. Engrossing, superbly detailed, unsentimental but very moving, it brilliantly deconstructs the chaos and blight that war and its aftermath brings." - Elizabeth Buchan
"This novel swept me to several enthralling historical locations. I was particularly taken by the wonderfully evoked silent film era in Hollywood; I loved the pre-war setting of Vienna with Hitler's reach hanging over every step, southern France, its nature, a refreshing balance to the Vichy regime, and then the exuberance, chaos and revelations in Berlin as the Wall came down in 1989. Perry is meticulous in his research. His novel is a complex and ambitious story of lovers and spies and Jewish survivors. It will keep you page-turning all through the night." - Carol Drinkwater
"A gripping and heartfelt story, brilliantly imagined, filled with fascinating characters living through some of the greatest turmoils of the twentieth century." - Elisabeth Gifford
"I've loved S W Perry's Jackdaw series, but this second-world-war novel is something apart. Beautifully written, humane, entirely convincing and authentic. I admired and loved it. Highly recommended." - Leonora Nattrass
"I was completely gripped - believability, tension and a twist in the ending ... an unforgettable novel. Very highly recommended." - Deborah Swift
"This novel swept me to several enthralling historical locations. I was particularly taken by the wonderfully evoked silent film era in Hollywood; I loved the pre-war setting of Vienna with Hitler's reach hanging over every step, southern France, its nature, a refreshing balance to the Vichy regime, and then the exuberance, chaos and revelations in Berlin as the Wall came down in 1989. Perry is meticulous in his research. His novel is a complex and ambitious story of lovers and spies and Jewish survivors. It will keep you page-turning all through the night." - Carol Drinkwater
"A gripping and heartfelt story, brilliantly imagined, filled with fascinating characters living through some of the greatest turmoils of the twentieth century." - Elisabeth Gifford
"I've loved S W Perry's Jackdaw series, but this second-world-war novel is something apart. Beautifully written, humane, entirely convincing and authentic. I admired and loved it. Highly recommended." - Leonora Nattrass
"I was completely gripped - believability, tension and a twist in the ending ... an unforgettable novel. Very highly recommended." - Deborah Swift
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