The Hidden Palace (The Daughters of War) (Book 2)

ISBN: 0008544654

Author: Jefferies, Dinah

Condition: New

An island of secrets. A runaway. And a promiseA rebellious daughter1925. Among the ancient honey-coloured walls of the tiny island of Malta, strangers slip into the shadows and anyone can buy a new name. Rosalie Delacroix flees Paris for a dancers job in the bohemian clubs deep in its winding streets.A sister with a secret1944. Running from the brutality of war in France, Florence Baudin faces a new life. But her estranged mother makes a desperate request: to find her vanished sister, who went missing years before.A rift over generationsBetrayals and secrets, lies and silence hang between the sisters. A faded last letter from Rosalie is Florences only clue, the war an immovable barrier - and time is running outPraise for The Hidden PalaceCompletely swept me away to another place and time. Dinah is the queen of sumptuous settings, transporting the reader effortlessly from chocolate-box Devonshire to the cabaret clubs of 1920s Paris and war-torn Malta. A marvellous, multi-layered story, populated with characters to really care for-HAZEL GAYNORDinah Jefferies wields her storytelling magic on the island of Malta . . . Its engrossing and sensual, full of the heat of the Mediterranean sun-GILL PAULPowerful, passionate and profoundly moving . . . this compelling mix of love and tragedy vibrates with warmth and pain, and captures the intense dislocation of war-KATE FURNIVALLSweeping and sumptuous with a gorgeously described sense of place. A marvellous adventure-TRACY REESPraise for Daughters of WarA wonderfully evocative and sensual writer-SANTA MONTEFIOREA warm and engrossing tale of passion and courage. I loved it-RACHEL HORELove, grief, abandonment, betrayal and secrets I adored it-LIZ NUGENT