Tuesday, December 26, 2017

Until We Find Home by Cathy Gohlke

Book Description:  For American Claire Stewart, joining the French Resistance sounded as romantic as the storylines she hopes will one day grace the novels she wants to write. But when she finds herself stranded on English shores, with five French Jewish children she smuggled across the channel before Nazis stormed Paris, reality feels more akin to fear.
With nowhere to go, Claire throws herself on the mercy of an estranged aunt, begging Lady Miranda Langford to take the children into her magnificent estate. Heavily weighted with grief of her own, Miranda reluctantly agrees . . . if Claire will stay to help. Though desperate to return to France and the man she loves, Claire has few options. But her tumultuous upbringing―spent in the refuge of novels with fictional friends―has ill-prepared her for the daily dramas of raising children, or for the way David Campbell, a fellow American boarder, challenges her notions of love. Nor could she foresee how the tentacles of war will invade their quiet haven, threatening all who have come to call Bluebell Wood home and risking the only family she’s ever known.

My Thoughts:  Reading about World War II is one of my most favorite subjects.  How people survived and helped each other overwhelms me.
Claire Stewart is an American who has a romantic view of what is really happening in the war.  So when she joins the French Resistance it all kind.of.comes to reality.  It sure doesn't seem romantic when one is stranded with five French Jewish children who need care and food.
When Claire members that she has an estranged aunt who has a magnificent estate where she can possibly take the children.
Nothing ever goes as planned but Claire and the children make it to the estate.  And Claire didn't realize that the arms of war are long and far reaching.
This is a magnificent story!  So realistic and so heart wrenching.
Sometimes circumstances will bring out the worst in us or the best in us.  Each individual chooses the outcome of how he will respond.
Loved, loved this read!

*This book was provided for review by Tyndale*

  • Paperback: 432 pages
  • Publisher: Tyndale House Publishers, Inc. (January 9, 2018)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 1496410963
  • ISBN-13: 978-1496410962

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