![]() For a month, their cars will be replaced by self-driving vehicles - voice-controlled, comfortable and safe. 1 internationally bestselling author The residents of Garrett Island are part of a ground-breaking experiment. 'Look Both Ways is devilishly good - exciting, thrilling - Barclay at his best!' SHARI LAPENA, No. In this groundbreaking memoir, Hannah Pick-Goslar shares an intimate portrait of Anne Frank, the young Jewish diarist who has captured the hearts of millions of readers around the world. From that day, Otto became a second father to Hannah, making sure that she was always looked after. Hannah only learned of Anne's death after her liberation, when Otto Frank came to visit her in hospital. Desperate to save her friend who was weak and struggling to survive, Hannah risked everything to toss packages filled with food and clothes over a barbed-wire fence. It wasn't until Hannah reached her darkest point, imprisoned with her family in Bergen-Belsen concentration camp, that she had an astonishing chance reunion with Anne. Hannah was tormented over the fate of Anne, wondering if, by some stroke of fortune she had escaped danger and was alive and well elsewhere. Hannah called on Anne, but there was no trace of her friend or her precious diary. ![]() The Nazi occupation of Amsterdam meant the friends were separated without warning. But in 1942, life quickly changed for the thirteen-year-old girls. Hannah instantly warmed to happy-go-lucky Anne and for seven blissful years, the inseparable pair navigated school, boys and coming of age in Amsterdam's Rivierenbuurt neighbourhood. When Hannah Pick-Goslar's family fled Nazi Germany for Amsterdam, she struck up a close friendship with her next-door neighbour precocious, outspoken and fun-loving Anne Frank. The inspiring and heartbreaking true story of two best friends torn apart and reunited against all odds. It will charm fans of Sheila O'Flanagan, Heidi Swain and Susanne O'Leary All of them have something they want to escape – or to hold on to. But can Esme help them find their way before the summer is over?įrom bestselling Irish writer Faith Hogan comes a new, uplifting story about discovering love, friendship and the healing power of the Irish sea air. ![]() without her husband Niamh, the city professional with a lifechanging decision to make and Phyllie, the grandmother whose family is slipping away from her.Įsme's guests provide the colour that helps her keep her grip on the world. There's Cora, the wife visiting indefinitely. But in her declining years, her sight is failing, and when she has a fall on the eve of the summer season, she is forced to take a back seat for the first time in her life.įrom her chair in the entry hall, not much passes Esme by. But if they're lucky, they might just leave with the second chance they didn't know they needed.Įsme has run the guest house for as long as anyone in Ballycove can remember. People come to the guest house for fresh air and views across the Atlantic. Alice and Lily, strangers to each other-one on land, the other at sea-will quickly become one another’s very best hope as their lives are fatefully entwined. Carlisle carrying a ship of children to Canada, a single lifeboat is left adrift in the storm-tossed Atlantic. With her husband gone and bombs raining down, Lily is faced with an impossible choice: keep her son and daughter close, knowing she may not be able to protect them, or enroll them in a risky evacuation scheme, where safety awaits so very far away. ![]() With two lively children and a loving husband, Lily’s humble home is her world, until war tears everything asunder. Determined to do her part, she finds a role perfectly suited to her experience as a schoolteacher-to help evacuate Britain’s children overseas.ġ940, London: Lily Nichols once dreamed of using her mathematical talents for more than tabulating the cost of groceries, but life, and love, charted her a different course. But times of war demand courage, and as the threat of German invasion looms, a plane crash near her home awakens a strength in Alice she’d long forgotten. ![]() Inspired by a remarkable true story, a young teacher evacuates children to safety across perilous waters, in a moving and triumphant new novel from New York Times bestselling author Hazel Gaynor.ġ940, Kent: Alice King is not brave or daring-she’s happiest finding adventure through the safe pages of books. ![]()
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