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The Last Train from Paris by Juliet Greenwood

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Genre: Historical fiction (WW2)

Tour Dates: 6th- 15th November 2023

Publication Date: 23rd October 2023

Standalone Novel

Formats available: Netgalley Widget

Estimated Page Count: 400

Types of post available: Reviews (preferred) and limited extracts, guest posts and Q&As

Author Content Warning: Part of the story follows refugees making their way through the war-torn roads of France in 1940, including references to death (including the death of children) and sexual abuse. There is also a scene in an abandoned (empty) concentration camp.

Pre-order Link: https://geni.us/290-al-aut-am

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For Iris, each visit to her mother in St Mabon’s Cove, Cornwall has been the same – a serene escape from the city. But today, as she breathes in the salt air on the doorstep of her beloved childhood home, a heavy weight of anticipation settles over her. Iris knows she’s adopted, but any questions about where she came from have always been shut down by her parents, who can’t bear to revisit the past.

 

Now, Iris can’t stop thinking about what she’s read on the official paperwork: BABY GIRL, FRANCE, 1939 – the year war was declared with Nazi Germany.

 

When Iris confronts her mother, she hits the same wall of pain and resistance as whenever she mentions the war. That is, until her mother tearfully hands her an old tin of letters, tucked neatly beside a delicate piece of ivory wool.

 

Retreating to the loft, Iris steels herself to at last learn the truth, however painful it might be. But, as she peels back each layer of history before her, a sensation of dread grows inside her. The past is calling, and its secrets are more intricate and tangled than Iris could ever have imagined.

 

The year is 1939, and in Paris, France a young woman is about to commit a terrible betrayal… 

 

A beautifully written and addictively compelling historical novel about the terrible choices ordinary people were forced to make in the horrors of World War Two. If you loved The Tattooist of Auschwitz, The Alice Network and The Nightingale, you will devour this book.