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A heartwarming family saga set just after World War II from SUNDAY TIMES Top 10 bestseller Maureen Lee. It's 1944 and Flora Knox is enjoying a beautiful spring morning in the Swiss mountains, waiting on a railway station platform for a train. Having been educated in Switzerland, Flora has been unable to return home to the UK since the outbreak of war, much to her delight. She is far happier there than she had been with her elderly aunt. As Flora watches, a cattle train draws closer to the station, pulling a fleet of slatted trucks behind. But the trucks don't contain animals. From within come the sounds of humans, groaning, pleading, on a desperate journey across the Swiss countryside. Horrified, Flora runs to the train as it slowly clatters through the station, and as she does so, a filthy bundle of rags is pushed out into her arms. Through the slats of the train, she hears a desperate plea: 'Take him. His name is Simon.' As the train disappears, Flora is left holding a tiny baby boy. Everything looks just the same as it did moments before - the sun, the sky, the station - but nothing will ever be the same again. SUNDAY TIMES bestseller Maureen Lee has written a powerful, moving story of war, motherhood and love. No library descriptions found. |
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Flora and Grace starts with Flora, a 17 year old girl living in Zurich, being handed a baby boy named Simon through the slats of a train carriage which is transporting Jews to Auschwitz. The rest of the story tells of Flora's life and how she looks after Simon.
It's a lovely, easy read. For the first half or so I found Flora a bit selfish but then she seemed to become a nicer person and that's when I found myself getting into the story much more. But what I liked about it was that it flowed easily and I always enjoyed picking it up and reading a bit more. ( )