Seventeen-year-old Wyatt Hillyer is suddenly orphaned when his parents, within hours of each other, jump off two different bridges—the result of their separate involvements with the same compelling neighbor, a Halifax switchboard operator and aspiring actress. The suicides cause Wyatt to move to small-town Middle Economy to live with his uncle, aunt, and ravishing cousin Tilda.
Setting in motion a chain of life-altering passions and the wartime perfidy at its core is the arrival of the German student Hans Mohring, carrying only a satchel. Wyatt’s account of the astonishing—not least to him— events leading up to his fathering of a beloved daughter spills out twenty-one years later.
This sounds like a mystery filled book with a lot of dark things happening. I really love the cover too and am curious how the story develops.
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Write reactiesI remember hearing about this when it came and thinking it sounded so interesting! Thanks for the reminder -- I'll have to look it up! I hope you enjoy!
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I like the cover too and I like that there are some dark elements in it as well.
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