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Books > Fiction > Genre fiction > War fiction > Second World War fiction
The next heartwarming instalment of the Timber Girls Series.
Perfect for fans of Elaine Everest and Pam Howes. Trixie and her
fellow lumberjills are back in Scotland, newly stationed at the
MacKay estate. When they arrive, they are shocked to find the place
dilapidated and neglected and the taciturn and secretive Noah
MacKay not at all happy to be meeting them. It quickly becomes
apparent that MacKay was expecting men from the forestry commission
to take charge, rather than four young women. Trixie, Jo, Hen and
Vi decide he needs to be proven wrong - after all, don't they have
stamina, skill and strength? But as the girls work to prove their
worth, secrets from their own pasts threaten to follow them to
Sutherland.
To survive the Holocaust, a young Jewish woman must pose as a
Christian farmer's wife in this unforgettable novel from USA Today
bestselling author Jennifer Robson--a story of terror, hope, love,
and sacrifice, inspired by true events, that vividly evokes the
most perilous days of World War II. It is the autumn of 1943, and
life is becoming increasingly perilous for Italian Jews like the
Mazin family. With Nazi Germany now occupying most of her beloved
homeland, and the threat of imprisonment and deportation growing
ever more certain, Antonina Mazin has but one hope to survive--to
leave Venice and her beloved parents and hide in the countryside
with a man she has only just met. Nico Gerardi was studying for the
priesthood until circumstances forced him to leave the seminary to
run his family's farm. A moral and just man, he could not stand by
when the fascists and Nazis began taking innocent lives. Rather
than risk a perilous escape across the mountains, Nina will pose as
his new bride. And to keep her safe and protect secrets of his own,
Nico and Nina must convince prying eyes they are happily married
and in love. But farm life is not easy for a cultured city girl who
dreams of becoming a doctor like her father, and Nico's provincial
neighbors are wary of this soft and educated woman they do not
know. Even worse, their distrust is shared by a local Nazi official
with a vendetta against Nico. The more he learns of Nina, the more
his suspicions grow--and with them his determination to exact
revenge. As Nina and Nico come to know each other, their feelings
deepen, transforming their relationship into much more than a
charade. Yet both fear that every passing day brings them closer to
being torn apart . . .
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