Perfect for readers of EARLY ONE MORNING and THE LIGHT BETWEEN OCEANS, Headline Review's Lead Launch for Spring 2021 is a gripping, moving debut novel of courage, survival and the endurance of hope.
'A deeply moving and story of love and sacrifice. Unmissable'
Sunday Express
Paris 1944
A young woman's future is torn away in a heartbeat.
Herded on to a train bound for Auschwitz, in an act of desperation she entrusts her most precious possession to a stranger.
All she has left now is hope.
Santa Cruz 1953
Jean-Luc thought he had left it all behind.
The scar on his face a small price to pay for surviving the Nazi occupation.
Now, he has a new life in California, a family.
He never expected the past to come knocking on his door.
On a darkened platform, two destinies become entangled.
Their choice will change the future in ways neither could have imagined.
'I absolutely loved it and it moved me to tears'
Lesley Pearse
'This unexpected story had me utterly enraptured'
Louise Candlish
'Emotional and heartrending...absolutely phenomenal'
Jill Mansell
'Perfectly paced and plotted, and evocatively written'
Woman & Home
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£7.99
9781472267979
(also available in ebook and audio)
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A powerful and poignant debut from a brilliant and bold new novelist
