Her novels are not quick reads in fact, at well over 500 pages, this one might qualify as a piece of carry-on luggage. The author worked at the library herself, and the story is based on real-life events there.In “Dragonfly,” as with each of her novels, she pays meticulous attention to historical details, seems to have fun creating layered characters and writes with depth. A young girl in Montana uncovers her story decades later and makes some surprising connections. The Paris Library by Janet Skeslien CharlesĪ woman, Odile, is a librarian at the American Library in Paris who helps smuggle books to their Jewish patrons when the Nazis occupied Paris. Sadie befriends a wealthy Polish girl and the two are challenged as danger grows. The Woman With the Blue Star by Pam JenoffĪ young woman, Sadie, in the Krakow Ghetto hides from the Nazis with her parents in the sewers beneath the city. (Available April 20)Ī debut novel about three generations of women from a Jewish family and their romances - from Sarah in Corfu during the war in 1942, to her daughter Bea in 2004 and modern-day Joey, Sarah's granddaughter, in Florida.
(Available April 13)Ī present-day freelance journalist, Maddie Harlow, looks back on the glamorous, treacherous early life of a local woman named Precious who was a fashion model during the Blitz in London. Two women in Nazi-occupied Rome are drawn to the Resistance, contending with heart-stopping danger and determined to protect the people they love. The Women of Chateau Lafayette by Stephanie DrayĪ history-sweeping story encompassing the French Revolution and both world wars, about Adriene Lafayette, the wife of the Marquis de Lafayette, and the lives of two women who had dramatic experiences decades later in her ancestral home in Auvergne. Here a young woman who inherits a Parisian apartment undisturbed since WWII discovers clues about her grandmother's intriguing past. (Available April 13)Īnother story set in the present and looking back in time at an older generation's secret wartime life. The story takes us back to those troubled days, by the author known for mysteries and romantic novels. (Available May 4 Read our excerpt here.)Ĭaroline's great-aunt Lettie leaves her a sketchbook, three keys and a final whisper: “Venice,” requesting that her ashes be scattered in the city where she was an art teacher during the war.
The Girl From the Channel Islands by Jenny LecoatĪ big fiction debut about a Jewish refugee who flees to the British Channel Islands and ends up working as a translator for the occupying Germans, inspired by Lecoat's parents’ real-life story of living under Nazi rule on the islands.Īlso based on a real-life story, this novel by the author of the wildly popular 2017 novel Beneath a Scarlet Sky focuses on the Martels, a Ukrainian family who fled Europe during Stalin and Hitler's terrorizing reigns and began a long, arduous migration to freedom in Montana. The story jumps forward from 1940 to 1947, when the trio rejoin to contend with the past.
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Three young female code breakers at the famed Bletchley Park, each very different, are torn apart by a treacherous secret.
Set in Rome during Mussolini's reign, this latest from Scottoline (known for her best-selling thrillers) focuses on three friends, Sandro, Marco and Elisabetta, while they grow to adulthood and their way of life is threatened by war and fascism. Other recent or upcoming novels set during World War II While it remains one of the darkest periods in modern history, she notes, people take comfort in reading about it “with the reassuring knowledge that the conflict ended and the good guys won."īelow are 18 new or upcoming works of historical fiction set during the era, many featuring unlikely spies, family secrets unearthed, brave members of the Resistance and their treacherous enemies, and, yes, lots of heartache and romance. The appeal of these stories is evergreen, says Amanda Bergeron, executive editor at Berkley, publisher of quite a few of the books described below (Bergeron edited The Women of Chateau Lafayette and The Invisible Woman). The good news for those readers: There are plenty of writers and publishers ready to feed it. In English | There's arguably no time and place more ripe for dramatic tension, tragedy and triumph, than World War II Europe, which helps explain readers’ enormous appetite for novels set in that time and place.
From top left: Putnam, Berkley, Knopf, Atria, William Morrow, and Ballantine
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