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Summary:

When Annie if finally given the green light to find her estranged grandmother nothing else seems to matter. Not the low level clerical job she has instead of the librarian or archivist she should be, not the fact that she pilfered a government file, and not the fact that the only address she has is twenty years old.

Little does she know that finding Grandma Celeste is only the beginning, that it will lead to a mad-cap escape from a retirement home and a trip into the past.

Celeste, for her part, can’t get over her past. She has made so many mistakes and missed so much, kept so many secrets. It’s time, with her granddaughter, to go back home. To see if there isn’t someone waiting for her after all, or if it will only be memories.

Told in dual timelines we are treated to Annie’s world of 1993, and Celeste’s of 1943- the summer she knew the greatest hunger, fear and love.

My thoughts:

I have such an author- crush on this woman. Every time I read one of her books I feel broken and made again. There’s so much beauty in her stories. Emotions- highs and lows. The descriptions are amazing, the plot rich and seamless. Madeleine has an amazing way of bringing her characters to life. They are gloriously multifaceted, even the “villains” of a story are not without pieces of humanity. I think I love that most about her stories.

Celeste was a really interesting character to me, strong and determined. At times she seemed very naive as well, but had a core of strength that I really admired. I liked how she saw the refugees coming into town- Daniel and Myriam Reese along with the young Wolf and all the others. The love story aspect really surprised me. I adored it, as I feel like it added a lot to the story. I felt deeply for Myriam’s plight, her fear and feeling of being trapped.

Honestly, I just loved all of it. My words aren’t enough…. they never seem to be with her stories. For me, this is a five star book.

On the adult content scale, there is a little language- nothing major, violence, and some sexual content. It was artfully done and not very explicit, so I would still give this to an older teen. Let’s give it a four.


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The Secrets Between Us Laura Madeleine author 9781784162535 Books Reviews

The Secrets Between Us is a dual time novel based upon events in the Alpes-Maritimes department of France during 1943. The author created the fictional town of Saint-Antoine to represent one of the small mountain towns of the area which, for a while, were overseen by the Italian army.

Eighteen year old Ceci worked in the family bakery; times were hard, flour was of poor quality and scarce, but each day they made basic bread for the town. Then news came that the Alpes-Maritimes area was being sent hundreds of people of Jewish descent to live among them during the ‘enforced residence’ project. Ceci’s family offered the flat over the bakery to Daniel and Myriam Reiss in return for rent. The newcomers fascinated Ceci and she soon became friends with Myriam.

In 1993 Annie is a loner employed as a cataloguing administrator for the foreign office, transferring endless paper files to a computer system. Her mother has recently been very ill and has asked Annie to help her find and reconnect with her own mother, Annie’s grandmother. The pair lost contact after an argument many years before, but Evelyn now wants to ask for her mother’s forgiveness.
When Annie finds her Grandmother, the elderly lady has a last request to return to Saint-Antoine and face a past she ran away from.

I enjoyed the parts of the book set in Saint-Antoine, both past and present events; the descriptions of the landscape, food and people made it come alive as I read the pages. I felt the despair and the fear during the war years as well as the guilt and the pain from Annie’s Grandmother when they returned. The answers that Annie finds about her own family are sweet and, if I’m honest, predictable, but they fit a purpose and offer a happy ending to a story filled with painful memories.

The Italian occupation and the ‘enforced residence’ project are different aspects of the war, which, for me, set this book apart from others I’ve read in this genre. So I would easily recommend it to those who enjoy war years fiction.

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Summary

When Annie if finally given the green light to find her estranged grandmother nothing else seems to matter. Not the low level clerical job she has instead of the librarian or archivist she should be, not the fact that she pilfered a government file, and not the fact that the only address she has is twenty years old.

Little does she know that finding Grandma Celeste is only the beginning, that it will lead to a mad-cap escape from a retirement home and a trip into the past.

Celeste, for her part, can’t get over her past. She has made so many mistakes and missed so much, kept so many secrets. It’s time, with her granddaughter, to go back home. To see if there isn’t someone waiting for her after all, or if it will only be memories.

Told in dual timelines we are treated to Annie’s world of 1993, and Celeste’s of 1943- the summer she knew the greatest hunger, fear and love.

My thoughts

I have such an author- crush on this woman. Every time I read one of her books I feel broken and made again. There’s so much beauty in her stories. Emotions- highs and lows. The descriptions are amazing, the plot rich and seamless. Madeleine has an amazing way of bringing her characters to life. They are gloriously multifaceted, even the “villains” of a story are not without pieces of humanity. I think I love that most about her stories.

Celeste was a really interesting character to me, strong and determined. At times she seemed very naive as well, but had a core of strength that I really admired. I liked how she saw the refugees coming into town- Daniel and Myriam Reese along with the young Wolf and all the others. The love story aspect really surprised me. I adored it, as I feel like it added a lot to the story. I felt deeply for Myriam’s plight, her fear and feeling of being trapped.

Honestly, I just loved all of it. My words aren’t enough…. they never seem to be with her stories. For me, this is a five star book.

On the adult content scale, there is a little language- nothing major, violence, and some sexual content. It was artfully done and not very explicit, so I would still give this to an older teen. Let’s give it a four.