‘This shelter was a relic from the Blitz, a deep concrete bunker where families had gone to sit out the bombings during World War II. My family had gone down there too – only once – but the experience had been so awful, so chilling, that the bunker had quickly come to represent the most terrifying thing in my world. –The Girl Below, Bianca Zander(p10)
I only picked this book up last night and I’m more than half-way through. It’s an unusual book, but it has really hooked me in. The writing is lovely, the plot intriguing, the main character a bit strange … and I really like the cover. It makes me really want to know what’s behind that gate. Expect the review soon, but in the meantime here’s the blurb:
After ten years in New Zealand, Suki returns to London, to a city that won’t let her in. However, a chance visit with Peggy – an old family friend who still lives in the building where she grew up – convinces Suki that there is a way to reconnect with the life she left behind a decade earlier. But the more involved she becomes with Peggy’s dysfunctional family, including Peggy’s wayward sixteen-year-old grandson, the more Suki finds herself mysteriously slipping back in time – to the night of a party her parents threw in their garden more than twenty years ago, when something happened in an old, long-unused air-raid shelter…
Sound good? Is it the kind of book you’d pick up?
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• Grab your current read
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After ten years in New Zealand, Suki returns to London, to a city that won’t let her in. However, a chance visit with Peggy – an old family friend who still lives in the building where she grew up – convinces Suki that there is a way to reconnect with the life she left behind a decade earlier. But the more involved she becomes with Peggy’s dysfunctional family, including Peggy’s wayward sixteen-year-old grandson, the more Suki finds herself mysteriously slipping back in time – to the night of a party her parents threw in their garden more than twenty years ago, when something happened in an old, long-unused air-raid shelter…
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Sounds interesting though it isn’t the kind of book I would pick up without some serious gushing by the recommender. Come see my teasers for Sharp by Alex Hughes and The Madman’s Daughter by Megan Shepherd. Happy reading!