Margaret Leroy

The English Girl

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Produktbeschreibung

A breath-taking historical novel set in 1930s Vienna, about an ordinary girl living in extraordinary times.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Little, Brown Book Group / Sphere
• Seitenzahl: 432
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. August 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 198mm x 126mm x 32mm
• Gewicht: 310g
• ISBN-13: 9780751551778
• ISBN-10: 0751551775
• Artikelnr.: 40423683

Autorenporträt

Margaret Leroy studied music at Oxford, and has worked as a music therapist and social worker. She has written six previous novels, including her first novel, Trust, televised by Granada; The Perfect Mother was also a NYT Notable Book of the Year, The Drowning Girl was chosen for the Oprah Summer Reading List, and The Soldier's Wife was a GoodReads Historical Fiction finalist. Her books have been published in twelve languages. She is married with two children, and lives in London.

Rezensionen

A wonderful, wonderful book! Margaret Leroy does an amazing job of showing us the Nazi takeover of Austria through the eyes of an engaging, bright and brave seventeen-year-old English girl. I lost three nights of sleep, unable to put this superbly written book aside and turn out the light Diane Chamberlain