The Escape
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The Escape
Narrated by:
Anne Dover
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Narrated by:
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Anne Dover
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Clare Harvey
Detta works as a translator for a Nazi-run labour camp for French workers. One winter morning in early 1945, Detta passes a group of exhausted British prisoners of war who are being force-marched westwards. The following day she receives an urgent message to contact the local priest. He is harbouring a group of escaped British prisoners of war in the manse: can she help?
London, 1989. Miranda is a 19-year old photography student in London, in thrall to her older boyfriend, a journalist called Quill. In November the fall of the Berlin Wall is all over the news. Quill asks Miranda to come with him to Germany: before they leave, Miranda's grandmother gives her an old postcard of the village she was born in. Miranda hopes that working together in Berlin will help cement the cracks in her relationship with Quill, but one night his behaviour spills over into violence, and Miranda ends up fleeing through the rubble of the Berlin wall and into the East. As she travels further, she begins to suspect she’s being followed by the Stasi. If she goes on, she worries that she’ll be taken into custody and be accused of spying; if she turns back, it means returning to Quill.
At last her grandmother’s photograph offers the solution. She tells people that she is going to find her family in the East. The Catholic church, and the manse, opposite where her grandmother once lived, are still standing. And the secrets of the past begin to be revealed.
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Critic Reviews
'Had me enthralled' (Kate Furnivall, author of The Betrayal, on The Gunner Girl)
'An exceptional talent' (Kate Rhodes, author of Hell Bay, on The Gunner Girl)
'A triumph' (Jill Mansell, author of This Could Change Everything, on The Night Raid)
'Heartwarming, enjoyable and full of surprises' (Elizabeth Chadwick, author of Templar Silks, on The Gunner Girl)
'Yet another gripping, moving and impeccably researched read' (Jill Mansell, author of This Could Change Everything)
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