The Beatles famously sang, “I get by with a little help from my friends.” The Underground Library is the book form of those cheery, uplifting lyrics, showing, through the lives of three young women, that a little help can make all the difference. 1939: Sofie Baumann doesn’t want to go to London on her own….
Embers in the London Sky, is a story of love, loss, and how to stand up for what is right in a world gone horribly wrong. Netherlands, 1940. She plans to escape. For several years, Aleida van der Zee Martens has lived in an abusive marriage, barely able to protect her fragile young son Theo…
The Foxhole Victory Tour takes us on a journey through the non-celebrity entertainment offered for the enlisted troops during WWII and provides two fascinating heroines as a focal point for that trip. Trumpet player Maggie McCleod has never met a rule she didn’t want to break. Her latest bit of bother has found her unemployed…
The London Bookshop Affair is a dual-timeline tale of love, war, and family set amidst the dark days of WWII and the glamour of London in the 1960s. It’s 1942 when we meet Jeannie Duchesne, nineteen years old and newly in love with an American Airman. He goes off to battle while she works quietly…
The WWII time period is starting to feel a bit overused in fiction, but some stellar works set during this era are still being published. One such story is The Midnight News, a haunting tale that captures the essence of London during the heart of the fighting. It’s 1940 and Lottie (Charlotte) Richmond has built…
Madeline Martin gives us another look at how bibliophiles fared in the conflicts of WWII in her latest novel, The Keeper of Hidden Books. A view of love, loss, and occupation, this stellar story will have you appreciating the freedom and peace you enjoy and realizing just what it costs to have it. It is…
Jacqueline Winspear takes a break from her popular Maisie Dobbs series to bring us The White Lady, a story of friendship, bloodshed, and betrayal. The cottage is a grace and favor home. Elinor White had done her bit (and beyond) for England over the course of two wars and was deemed entitled to the quiet…
Sally Brady was only eleven when her parents put her on a train headed to the west coast – back when her name wasn’t Sally Brady. She’s under strict orders to send money home to Iowa, to help support her sick mother, the dying farm, and her four siblings. It would be an enormous burden…
Code Name Edelweiss shines a spotlight on American anti-semitism in the years prior to WWII and brings attention to some little-known history in the fight against fascism in America. Summer 1933: Liesl Weiss is the second generation of her family employed by MGM. The huge movie lots and sound stages of the massive studio have…
It’s hard to find an original angle on a World War II story at this point. The Lost English Girl manages to provide a somewhat fresh twist on the subject by exploring the strained marriage between a Christian woman and a Jewish man, and the child she places in seeming safety for the duration of…
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