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The Hour of Separation
- Narrated by: Catherine Harvey
- Length: 14 hrs and 4 mins
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Summary
March 1939.
Estelle is the headstrong daughter of Fleur, a Resistance legend who disappeared during the Great War, supposedly killed while helping Allied soldiers to escape.
Christa, an only child, longs to break free from the constraints of London suburbia, and fantasises about the ethereal Belgian heroine who saved her father.
When Estelle comes looking for the truth about the mother she believes deserted her, an intense friendship grows between the two young women. Estelle invites Christa to De Eikenhoeve, her family's idyllic country estate. There, Christa encounters Estelle's two brothers - brooding, tempestuous Robbe and dependable, golden-haired Pieter - and during that long hot summer, passions run high. When war breaks out Christa is forced to return home, but not before she has done something she will regret for the rest of her life.
Christa arrives back in England a changed woman, while Estelle decides to follow in her mother's footsteps and join the Resistance. Little do they dream that Fleur was betrayed by someone close to them, and that the legacy of this betrayal will have heartbreaking consequences for them all.
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- Amazon Customer
- 21-11-21
Sensitive, prescient, hard to put down: beautifully written
There is a lightness of touch from the author that, with the audio book means you feel you are living the story with the characters - that they are alive. I found it hard to put down.
The characters, men and women, are beautifully drawn: as a reader you are drawn into the emotions and the tensions each character experiences.
The research behind the book must have been extensive - set in the 30s/40s, the Belgian, England, France and Spain settings seem so seamlessly authentic.
Some text to be skipped over may be the Gestapo interrogations.
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- Magenta
- 16-08-20
Long and drawn-out
Incredibly slow starting, long, drawn-out, none of the characters had personalities. was really annoying that tge Road name was wrong, the one in the book is in a totally different part of Watford. I was the only person in my book group to finish it!
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