At the end of the Second World War, Klara Janowska and her daughter, Alicja, find themselves in a refugee camp in Germany while waiting to be repatriated to England. Along with thousands of other displaced persons, Klara and Alicja have to endure appalling conditions but then Klara recognises a man from her past and knows she has to kill him before he kills her. As a dangerous game of cat and mouse ensues, Klara takes three orphans under her wing while fighting her attraction to Davide, a ... Read the Post
Kate Furnivall
The Italian Wife by Kate Furnivall
Isabella, one of Italy's few female architects, is helping to create one of Mussolini's newest cities, Bellina, which has risen from the Pontine Marshes, a mosquito ridden swampland. While sitting outside a cafe, Isabella is approached by a woman who asks her to watch over her daughter, Rosa, for a moment, Isabella is reluctant but agrees when the woman mentions the name of Isabella's dead husband. Moments later, Isabella watches in horror as the woman throws herself from the tower Isabella ... Read the Post
The Far Side of the Sun by Kate Furnivall
The Far Side of the Sun is set in the Bahamas during the Second World War and follows Kate Furnivall's usual formula of a woman facing peril in an exotic location. The problem with The Far Side of the Sun is that it explores a real life mystery which held little interest for me and I found the book somewhat tedious to read as a result. As you would expect, the main characters of this book are women and Furnivall presents us with two who are from vastly different backgrounds. Dodie, a ... Read the Post
Shadows on the Nile by Kate Furnivall
Kate Furnivall is one of my favourite authors and I absolutely loved her Russian novels, however Shadows of the Nile just didn't work for me. The trouble is I'm not quite sure what this book was trying to be and it seemed full of ideas and themes which were never fully realised. The story begins with eight year old Jessie's autistic brother, Georgie, being sent away, and then replaced by a boy of the same age called Tim. Jessie was the only one in the family who could deal with Georgie and she ... Read the Post