The Bond

For lovers of evocative historical fiction... 'The Bond' transports you to pre-war Poland to experience two World Wars and Hitler's domination as it was experienced by a peasant family whose members will find their way into your heart, and will live on there long after you have turned the last page.

THE CHILD OF A HARDWORKING peasant farmer, Hana enjoyed an almost idyllic early life. Finding, and marrying her soul mate, she lived happily with him on their little plot of paradise. She gave birth to a daughter and adopted a dearly loved son.

Challenged by tragedy and unusual circumstances, Hana’s faith and the power of family love sustained her.

Then came the Great War. Hana and her family were among the millions of Polish refugees forced to flee. Returning to heart-breaking devastation, they rebuilt, displaying the strength and resilience characteristic of their kind.
And then...
Adolf Hitler’s invasion of Poland brought the lapankas, resulting, for millions, in family separation, incarceration, slave labour, Lebensborn, the Germinization of Foreign Children, and murder. Infamous Nazi plans tore families and communities apart and changed, forever, the lives of a people who were fundamentally a people of peace.

Will Hana and her family survive? Will loved ones be reunited?

Can they ever return to the idyllic farming life they kne