It seems that I’ve been reading a lot of World War 2 historical novels recently. After Beyond the Horizon which I enjoyed immensely, I was lucky to read The Wartime Nanny which was also so riveting! The Wartime Nanny The Nazis are everywhere now. We must leave Vienna. It might be that soon our letters won’t get out anymore. Can you help, dear sister? Please, ask for us. Send news, and quickly. Please. London, 1938. Sixteen-year-old Natalie Leeman takes the heart-breaking decision to leave her family behind in Vienna and travel to England to join her cousin Leah in service. Natalie is…

A Tuscan Memory is a well-researched book that is an absolute pleasure to read and be transported to the beautiful Tuscan countryside! A Tuscan Memory In a tiny hamlet nestled in the Tuscan mountains, farmers gather after a hard day in the meadows, and children’s laughter rings across the square: but one little boy does not join in their play. Behind his deep brown eyes, hides a heartbreaking secret… Ninety years later. When elderly Giselda Chiozzi discovers a lost little boy, curled up asleep in the beech forest outside her grand but empty home, she can’t help but take pity…