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So beautifully written, so beautifully told and so eye opening about horrors that I already knew existed and happened, but needed reminding of again. A terrible part of our history, of the worlds history, that I hope we never forget and more importantly, never, ever, let happen again. asha, some have argued, girl, you have blinders on. He might be great now, but who is he going to be when he comes home? Engaging, gripping, addictive and completely unpredictable. An absolute must read. Ali Blood is an author to watch.’ NetGalley Reviewer, ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ This is a love story, my love story and thousands of other women’s love story. It’s a story that’s known, documented, photographed, videotaped, audiotaped, filed, photocopied, watched over, studied, caricatured, questioned, researched, and noted. You will be spellbound by this stellar debut.”– Susan Meissner, Bestselling author of The Last Year of the War
They face appalling conditions in the camp and the constant fear that Izzy will be exposed. In an attempt to keep his new wife safe, he confides in a small group of fellow prisoners and together they protect Izzy from the other prisoners as well as the guards. These men become their family and soon Izzy cannot imagine life beyond the camp and her fellow prisoners. Should Izzy be revealed as a woman she A deeply moving and compelling read, The Prisoner's Wife tells of an epic journey, not only across war-torn countries but deep into the heart of what it is to be human. The story is beautifully written and closely observed so that I felt I walked every mile of Izzy's long march alongside her. A heart-rending story beautifully told.’ Judith Allnat, author of The Poet’s Wife and The Silk Factory The sheer defiance of human resiliency is as potent now as ever. And so this book intersected my life at the right time. I am flabberghasted by its attention to detail, its painstaking research but also how it sits in the loving care of an author whose hands were gifted with the story and who recognizes the potency of that treasure and so delicately seeps it out to us, shares it with deft and brutal language, redresses the books that move wives to the shadows, paints the utmost portrait of a woman in a man's world. There are limited characters in this book - the whole thing is based around how Emma feels and her experiences and I love it for this. This is not a typical London gangster book, it shows how the unwilling wife along for the ride feels, and her helpless desperation.
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The newlyweds run away with the goal of joining Izzy’s father and the resistance. For safety measures, Izzy disguises herself as a man. Their plans are foiled when they are captured by Nazi soldiers and sent to a POW camp. Their living conditions are terrible and they are fearful that someone will discover Izzy’s identity. With the end of the war in sight, these two prisoners are in a daily fight to survive. Rather than extending the insta-love at the beginning of the book (after swearing it wasn't love at first sight), or lengthening the amount of time they were on the run, or even focusing on day to day life surviving and Izzy's budding friendships with the men in the bunk, the author deflects and distracts with political talk to cover up that there is no story or plot in the middle half of the book.
I was fully immersed in the storyline and read incessantly just to find out what happened to Bill and Izzy. My only criticism of the book was the ending, as I would have loved an epilogue that went a number of years in the future to update the reader on what happened after the war ended. I just adored Izzy and Bill too. How can you not root for a young couple in love to outwit the Germans and survive? I was rooting that a happy ending for them from the moment they met. I especially loved Izzy, who not only wanted to get off that farm, but she specifically wanted to find and join up with her father and brother who were members of a resistance group. I loved her spark and her strength and was sure that if anyone could survive their impossible situation, it was Izzy. I have read many books set in Europe during WW2, usually of the Jewish ghetto and concentration camps, but this one is something completely different. THE PRISONER'S WIFE is just that...the story of a prisoner of war's wife...but not in the way you would expect it. What a phenomenal debut! I need more!!! I devoured this. It left me speechless – I wish I could experience it for the first time all over again’ NetGalley Reviewer, ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐Their situation is beyond dangerous. If Izabela is discovered, she and Bill - and all the men who helped them - will face lethal consequences. We follow Izzy and Bill as they escape the farm, travel in the night, sleep in the day, become captured, and endure the prison camp. The Prisoner's Wife seamlessly and skilfully breathes intense, fully realised life into the stark scenes it describes. I was by turns moved, outraged and humbled' DEBORAH KAY DAVIES, author of True Things About Me Emma is married to top dog, dodgy character Tommy. As this begins, Tommy is found guilty and sentenced to five years imprisonment. Only, this doesn’t mean freedom for wife Emma. I’ve explained to people that I didn’t, despite what it would seem, fall in love with a killer. I fell in love with a man who wanted to become his own more perfect creation, a man committed to the transformation of himself, of the world. And the world he imagined was like the world I imagined. It was a place that was just and fair and safe and livable. We could meet there, in that place. We could meet there as creators. We could meet there as equals.
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