โColley has a deft hand for creating a story that is impossible to put down. He creates characters that are inadvertently flawed yet highly sympathetic and a love story as moving as it is remarkable. He creates a sense of pathos but also hope in human frailty. Highly recommended.โย Historical Novel Society
๐ ๐๐ฎ๐ซ๐ข๐๐ ๐ฌ๐๐๐ซ๐๐ญ ๐๐ง๐ ๐ ๐ฅ๐ข๐๐๐ญ๐ข๐ฆ๐ ๐จ๐ ๐ ๐ฎ๐ข๐ฅ๐ญ ๐๐จ๐ซ๐ง ๐ข๐ง ๐ญ๐ก๐ ๐๐๐ซ๐ค ๐ก๐๐๐ซ๐ญ ๐จ๐ ๐๐๐ณ๐ข ๐๐๐ซ๐ฆ๐๐ง๐ฒ.
England, 2001.ย 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 parentโs 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.
Elizabethโs quest to find the truth leads her to Germany where sheโs 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 Hitlerโs Germany.
Germany, 1944.ย 18-year-old Hannah, beautiful and naive, volunteers to work in a home for evacuated children. But Doctor Fick, a loyal Nazi, decrees that thereโs a better way for Hannah to serve the Fatherland.
Drawn further into the doctorโs distorted world, Hannah only realises whatโs expected of her when itโs too late. Confronted with evil, Hannah makes an impossible choice, a choice that will reverberate down the generationsโฆ
An interview with the author about The Lost Daughter.
โOne thing is for sure in Colleyโs books; reading them is an emotional journey laced with tension.โ
โRupert Colleyโs skill in writing novels lies in his ability to create characters that the reader truly cares about. His characters are fully rounded, complex individuals with their own personal stories.โ
