The Silent Resistance

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Pub Date Dec 05 2024 | Archive Date Dec 20 2024

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Description

One mother’s impossible choice. One daughter’s epic search.

Occupied Norway, 1944. As the war rages on, Anni is surviving as best she can, contributing to the resistance whenever possible and standing firm without her sailor husband Lars, who she hasn't heard from in three years. Her daughter Ingrid is the bright spot in her life and Anni is determined to keep her safe and happy. However, when a German official is billeted at their house the situation for them both becomes far more dangerous, and Anni faces an impossible choice.

London, 1952. In the years since she moved to live with her father, young Ingrid has been trying to make sense of the disappearance of her mother just as peace in Norway was declared. She desperately holds onto the fact that Anni promised she would always come back for her and, undaunted, Ingrid sets out to discover what happened to her mother all those years ago... 

One mother’s impossible choice. One daughter’s epic search.

Occupied Norway, 1944. As the war rages on, Anni is surviving as best she can, contributing to the resistance whenever possible and...


Advance Praise

'The atmosphere, the historical detail, the descriptions of wartime hardships and small joys, will stay with me for a very long time. I found myself living and breathing alongside Anni – storytelling at its best' Eva Glyn, author of The Dubrovnik Book Club

'I was enthralled … Heart-breaking, poignant' Andie Newton, author of A Child for the Reich

'It kept me spell-bound all the way through' Christina Courtenay, author of The Silent Touch of Shadows


'The atmosphere, the historical detail, the descriptions of wartime hardships and small joys, will stay with me for a very long time. I found myself living and breathing alongside Anni – storytelling...


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EDITION Hardcover
ISBN 9780749032166
PRICE £22.00 (GBP)
PAGES 416

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