The Many Seas to Guernsey

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Catherine Taylor

Verlag:

The Cameo Press Ltd

Unsere-Artikel-Nr.: P34784846

EAN: 9781916093249

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Nicht auf Lager

Zustellung: Fr, 25.09.2026

Versand: Kostenlos

CHF 35.75

Beschreibung

KIRKUS STARRED REVIEW. - "An engrossing saga of love set against a subtly drawn, disturbing depiction of Hitler's tyranny. Taylor's sprawling narrative is a coming-of-age story with the highest possible stakes, a tense wartime thriller, a study of faith in extremis. and an unusually intimate portrait of life in Germany as Nazism corrupts friendships and families. ". PUBLISHERS WEEKLY. - "An immersive tale of enduring love between a British woman and a German Catholic seminarian on the eve of WWII. WWII fiction fans will be riveted. ". HISTORICAL NOVEL SOCIETY. -. ". Strongly recommended for its emotional intensity, its action-packed plot, and the voicing of multiple characters' perspectives that gives a feel of authenticity to a story set in this turbulent time. ". In the last golden years before WWII a young English writer and a German Roman Catholic priest-in-training meet by chance on the small British island of Guernsey - and are drawn into a forbidden, all-consuming love. Then history and duty intrude, forcing them to choose between complicity and courage in a fight for truth, freedom - and each other. A sweeping, morally complex love story that will stay with you long after the last page, from Catherine Taylor, author of no. 1 best seller Beyond The Moon. In 1936 Kitty Garland-Fry moves to Guernsey with her bohemian, artist parents and unruly siblings. Marooned amid her family's chaotic lifestyle, Kitty, a passionate writer of fairy tales, fears she'll die of frustration if she cannot find a life of her own. In Nazi Berlin, meanwhile, Lukas von Harnitz, an idealistic Roman Catholic seminarian, is reluctantly leaving for Guernsey, too, forced to interrupt his studies to take his newly widowed English mother back home to safety. Fiercely anti-Nazi, he can't help feeling he's abandoning both his country and his calling at a moment of gathering darkness. Two fish out of water, Kitty and Lukas are drawn together in their shared loneliness. Bonding over books, their days unfold like a quiet, sunlit dream on white sand beaches beneath endless blue skies, sheltered from both the pull of responsibility and the gathering storm of war. But then friendship begins to deepen into something more, and Lukas is forced into a devastating choice, while fate also compels Kitty onto a path that will take her into the very heart of Nazi Germany. Charting the road to war from both the British and German perspectives, TMSTG. is an emotional, character-driven epic grappling with themes of faith, conscience and the power of love in an age of extremes. Moving from the secluded turquoise coves of Guernsey to the towering Bavarian Alps, then the Gestapo cells of pre-war Berlin and finally the hellish beaches of 1940 Dunkirk, TMSTG. is the first in a planned duology and will appeal to fans of All the Light We Cannot See. , The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society. , Suite Française. and The Nightingale. Catherine Taylor is a former journalist, starting her career at the Guernsey Evening Press, and ending up at Dow Jones News/The Wall Street Journal. She was born and brought up on Guernsey, where her own family experienced the German occupation and evacuation, then went on to study German history and language, giving rise to a lifelong passion for the history of the two world wars.

Spezifikationen

Sprache

Englisch

Autor

Catherine Taylor

Erscheinungsjahr

2026

Format

Buch (Softcover)

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