At a house party beside Georgian Bay, on the eve of war, Victoria Treloar of London is attracted to poet Grant Giovanelli from Toronto. The next day, at a castle in Germany, Clara Dunsmuir of New Brunswick marries her fiancé Peter von Metternich, thus barely escaping internment as an enemy alien. Throughout the war, Clara and her best friend Tatiana Miloslavsky secretly help Tati’s husband Klaus to save refugees, then carry out the bomb attack on Hitler in 1944. Grant Giovanelli fights U-boats in the North Atlantic, his brother Jack parachutes on a commando mission into occupied France. A wild ride through history and imagination that is underpinned by the reality of Hitler, Churchill, Stalin and Roosevelt plotting their separate wars that nearly ruined the world.
From this best-selling author an astonishing new novel that is a bitter, tender, funny, and vivid telling of people’s lives on both sides of World War Two, interlocking intense battle scenes with passionate and genuine love stories a wonderful read, as if you had been there!