For readers of The Tattooist of Auschwitz, The Lost Girls of Paris, and The Paris Orphan comes an unforgettable story of love, betrayal, and a courageous woman's search for answers -- whatever the sacrifice. Evelyn Taylor-Clarke sits in her chair at Forest Lawns Care Home in the heart of the English countryside, surrounded by residents with minds not as sharp as hers. It would be easy to dismiss Evelyn as a muddled old woman, but her lipstick is applied perfectly and her buttons done up correctly. Because Evelyn is a woman with secrets, and Evelyn remembers everything. She can never forget the promise she made to the love of her life, to discover the truth about the mission that led to his death, no matter what it cost her . . . When Evelyn's niece Pat opens an old biscuit tin to find a photo of a small girl titled Liese, 1951 and a passport in another name, she has some questions for her aunt. And Evelyn is transported back to a place in Germany known as the Forbidden Village, where a woman who called herself Eva went where no one else dared, among shivering prisoners, to find the man who gambled with her husband's life.
This is a very heart wrenching book, told by the main character Evelyn, over the years, during the war and after. You follow her heartbreaking story through the letters she writes to her husband who's life, and those of his comrades are lost in a mission, by a cruel and non caring colonel, who gambles with the lives of the men who serve under him. Though he is no longer alive she writes letters to him every day, telling him how much she misses him, and will never stop loving him, and some way somehow,
she will avenge his death and and those of his fellow officers, and friends.Thus begins her story, of joining the Military, and working her way through the years, and ranks, to serve under the hated Colonel. I won't go into anymore of the story, but you will definitely be ""CHEERING" for Evelyn's sweet justice in two different instances. I love how the story plays out, the Very Realistic way the Characters are portrayed, and you will definitely have your likes and VERY STRONG DISLIKES !!! (One being her niece). I truly couldn't put this book down, and I so Love sweet Little OLD Evelyn, you wanna just reach out and give her a Hug ! You definitely will NOT regret reading this book...if I could give it more than 5 stars, I would !!! The Author did a Fabulous job, I truly can't wait to read another by her.
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