Uncovering a dark family secret sends one woman through the history
of Britain's World War II spy network and glamorous 1930s Paris to
save her family's reputation. Caroline Payne thinks it's just
another day of work until she receives a call from Mat Hammond, an
old college friend and historian, but Mat has uncovered a
scandalous secret kept buried for decades: In World War II,
Caroline's British great-aunt betrayed family and country to marry
her German lover. Determined to find answers and save her family's
reputation, Caroline flies to her family's ancestral home in
London. She and Mat discover diaries and letters that reveal her
grandmother and great-aunt were known as the "Waite sisters."
Popular and witty, they came of age during the interwar years, a
time of peace and luxury filled with dances, jazz clubs, and
romance. The buoyant tone of the correspondence soon yields to
sadder revelations as the sisters grow apart, and one leaves home
for the glittering fashion scene of Paris, despite rumblings of a
coming world war. Each letter brings more questions. Was Caroline's
great-aunt actually a traitor and Nazi collaborator, or is there a
more complex truth buried in the past? Together, Caroline and Mat
uncover stories of spies and secrets, love and heartbreak, and the
events of one fateful evening in 1941 that changed everything. In
this rich historical novel from award-winning author Katherine
Reay, a young woman is tasked with writing the next chapter of her
family's story. But Caroline must choose whether to embrace a love
of her own and proceed with caution if her family's decades-old
wounds are to heal without tearing them even further apart. Praise
for The London House: "Carefully researched, emotionally hewn, and
written with a sure hand, The London House is a tantalizing tale of
deeply held secrets, heartbreak, redemption, and the enduring way
that family can both hurt and heal us. I enjoyed it thoroughly."
-Kristin Harmel, New York Times bestselling author of The Book of
Lost Names A stand-alone split-time novel Partially epistolary: the
historical storyline is told through letters and journals Book
length: approximately 102,000 words Includes discussion questions
for book clubs
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