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.
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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. The long answer: I write my books as if they are taking place in the present at the time that I am writing them.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. WHAT YEARS DO YOUR BOOKS TAKE PLACE IN? The short answer: They don’t take place in any specific year. Hopefully it’s fairly obvious that the best way to read Heartstopper is in the order of volumes (so Volume One first, then Volume Two, then Volume Three, etc…)
Chronologically, Heartstopper starts a year before Solitaire starts. You do not need to read them both, but if you’d like to read them both, it doesn’t matter which one you read first.
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The Heartstopper series and Solitaire feature some of the same characters, and operate within the same universe/timeline, but they are very different stories – Heartstopper is a happy, romantic, uplifting graphic novel series that focuses on Nick and Charlie, while Solitaire is a dark story about mental illness narrated by Charlie’s sister, Tori, and was written long before Heartstopper. This Winter and Nick and Charlie are spin-off novellas from Solitaire and Heartstopper, but can still be read and enjoyed even if you haven’t read those books. Start with the one that interests you the most from the blurb! Solitaire, Radio Silence, I Was Born for This, and Loveless are all standalone novels about different characters.
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