I was wrong when I thought I could be a part of that world, but it took a person like Léon to show me that a world of lies and secrets and deceit is not a world I want to be a part of. So I work on the farm now. I have great ideas for it and sit at night with Léon drawing up plans and schemes that Papa will agree to. The world is changing and we will be changing with it.
And when André comes, the hut will be ready.
Acknowledgements
A book is a complex animal and it takes a complex process, which involves many very clever people, for it to end up looking so smart and sassy on a bookshelf. I am always in awe of the wondrous and dedicated team at Simon & Schuster UK who work such miracles for me and my book. Thank you a million times over to each and every one of you.
I am profoundly grateful to my superb editor Jo Dickinson for her wisdom and insight and for her calmness when I am in urgent need of it. Thank you, Jo, for everything you do. It is a privilege to work with you, the best of the best.
Huge thanks also to my awesome agent Teresa Chris for all the support and kindness, and yes, for all the whip-cracking when required too. You help make my job a joy.
I am greatly indebted to Lieutenant Scott Dyson of the RCN for being a constant source of information concerning all things military and for his generosity in giving time and expertise. However much research info I gleaned from military books, it was invaluable to have a military voice at my side to guide me away from pitfalls. Any errors are definitely mine, not his.
Thank you to Steve Sharam for – well, just for being his inimitable self, listening to my bookish woes and for introducing me to Scott Dyson. My warm thanks also to David Gilman for his daily shot in the digital-arm to keep me going.
Thanks yet again to my fabulous buddies in Brixham Writers. Always full of wise advice and noisy laughter. I raise a cup of tea and a choccie biscuit to you!
For her friendship and her speedy fingers my huge thanks to Marian Churchward. You make it fun as always.
Lastly my love and thanks to Norman for his encouragement and belief in my story throughout all the crazy ups and downs and sleepless nights, for his ingenious ideas when I’d tied myself in a knot and for sharing his impressive knowledge of aircraft.
Kate Furnivall was born in Wales and studied English at London University. She worked in publishing and then moved to TV advertising, where she met her husband.
In 2000, Kate decided to write her mother’s extraordinary story of growing up in Russia, China and India, and this became The Russian Concubine, which was a New York Times bestseller. All her books since then have had an exotic setting and Kate has travelled widely for her research. She now has two sons and lives with her husband by the sea in Devon.
Visit Kate’s website at www.katefurnivall.com
Also by Kate Furnivall
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Under a Blood Red Sky
The Concubine’s Secret
The Jewel of St Petersburg
The White Pearl
Shadows on the Nile
The Far Side of the Sun
The Italian Wife
The Liberation
The Betrayal
The Survivors
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The Survivors
‘Directly I saw him, I knew he had to die.’
Germany, 1945.
Klara Janowska and her daughter Alicja have walked for weeks to get to Graufeld Displaced Persons camp. In the cramped, dirty, dangerous conditions they, along with 3,200 others, are the lucky ones. They have survived and will do anything to find a way back home.
But when Klara recognises a man in the camp from her past, a deadly game of cat and mouse begins.
He knows exactly what she did during the war to save her daughter. She knows his real identity.
What will be the price of silence? And will either make it out of the camp alive?
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The Betrayal
Could you kill someone? Someone you love?
Paris, 1938.
Twin sisters are divided by fierce loyalties and by a terrible secret. The drums of war are beating and France is poised, ready to fall. One sister is an aviatrix, the other is a socialite and they both have something to prove and something to hide.
The Betrayal is an unforgettably powerful, epic story of love, loss and the long shadow of war, perfect for readers of Santa Montefiore and Victoria Hislop.
‘Exquisitely heart-wrenching and utterly engrossing. The Betrayal is an absolute gem’ Penny Parkes, author of Best Practice
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The Liberation
A country in turmoil.
A woman with one chance to save herself.
Italy, 1945.
Caterina Lombardi is desperate – her father is dead, her mother has disappeared and her brother is being drawn towards danger. One morning, among the ruins of the bombed Naples streets, Caterina is forced to go to extreme lengths to protect her own life and in doing so forges a future in which she must clear her father’s name.
An Allied Army officer accuses her father of treason and Caterina discovers a plot against her family. Who can she trust and who is the real enemy now? And will the secrets of the past be her downfall?
This epic novel is an unforgettably powerful story of love, loss and the long shadow of war.
‘A thrilling roller-coaster of a read, seductive, mysterious and edgy. I LOVED it’ Dinah Jefferies, author of The Tea Planter’s Wife
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