Leeway Cottage

<p>In April 1940 as the Nazis march into Denmark Sydney Brant a wealthy girl of the Dundee summer colony marries a gifted Danish pianist Laurus Moss. They believe they are well matched as young lovers do but Laurus's beloved family is in Copenhagen hostage to what the fortunes of Hitler's war will bring. By the time the war is over Laurus's family has played an active role in Denmark's grassroots rescue of virtually all seven thousand of the country's Jews. Meanwhile in America Sydney has led a group knitting for the war effort and had a baby.</p><p>Combining the story of one long American twentieth-century marriage with one of the most stirring stories of World War II <em>Leeway Cottage</em> is a beautifully written tour de force of a novel.</p>