The Lost Daughter
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3.3 โข 3 Ratings
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Publisher Description
๐ ๐๐ฎ๐ซ๐ข๐๐ ๐ฌ๐๐๐ซ๐๐ญ ๐๐ง๐ ๐ ๐ฅ๐ข๐๐๐ญ๐ข๐ฆ๐ ๐จ๐ ๐ ๐ฎ๐ข๐ฅ๐ญ ๐๐จ๐ซ๐ง ๐ข๐ง ๐ญ๐ก๐ ๐๐๐ซ๐ค ๐ก๐๐๐ซ๐ญ ๐จ๐ ๐๐๐ณ๐ข ๐๐๐ซ๐ฆ๐๐ง๐ฒ.
England, 2001. Elizabeth has always suspected her mother habours a secret from her time as a young woman in Nazi Germany. But her mother, suffering from dementia, is lost to her now.
When Elizabeth stumbles across a Nazi certificate amongst her parent's paperwork, it forces her to question the very foundations of her 1950s childhood and her first love; a childhood, she now realises, was built on lies.
Elizabeth's quest to find the truth leads her to Germany where she's met with a wall of silence. She knows that beyond this wall, is the truth, a truth that exists deep within the dark and twisted soul of Hitler's Germany.
Germany, 1944. 18-year-old Hannah, beautiful and naive, volunteers to work in a home for evacuated children. But Doctor Fick, a loyal Nazi, decrees that there's a better way for Hannah to serve the Fatherland.
Drawn further into the doctor's distorted world, Hannah only realises what's expected of her when it's too late. Confronted with evil, Hannah makes an impossible choice, a choice that will reverberate down the generationsโฆ
Customer Reviews
Poignant historical fiction
The Lost Daughter by Rupert Colley is a poignant WWII story. Having read other books by this author I was looking forward to reading this one and was not disappointed. Tessa's life seems to be unraveling, her only daughter off to university, her husband has left her, and her elderly mother languishes in a nursing home. Finding a paper in her mother's belongings sets Tessa off on a journey of discovery. The author tells a gripping tale that looks at some gritty and very real issues of Nazi practices during World War II. The characters are strong and evocative, and the reader is drawn into the heartbreaking drama of their all too human struggles. The story is told during three different time periods, contemporary, during the war, and also several years postwar. Will revealing the past help make sense of the present? Secrets and lies have formed Tessa's life, will finding out the truth heal the hurts, heal her family? I was given a complimentary copy of the book and was not required to write a review. The opinions are my own.