The Last Train from Paris

<p><b>The year is 1939 and in Paris France a young woman is about to commit a terrible betrayal...</b></p><p>For <b>Iris</b> each visit to her mother in St Mabon's Cove Cornwall has been the same - a serene escape from the city. But today as she breaths in the salt air on the doorstep of her beloved childhood home a heavy weight of anticipation settles over her. Iris knows she's adopted but any questions about where she came from have always been shut down by her parents who can't bear to revisit the past.</p><p>Now Iris can't stop thinking about what she's read on the official paperwork: <b>BABY GIRL FRANCE 1939 - the year war was declared with Nazi Germany.</b></p><p>When Iris confronts her mother she hits the same wall of pain and resistance as whenever she mentions the war. That is until her mother tearfully hands her an old tin of letters tucked neatly beside a delicate piece of ivory wool.</p><p>Retreating to the loft Iris steels herself to at last learn the truth however painful it might be. But as she peels back each layer of history before her a sensation of dread grows inside her. The past is calling and its secrets are more intricate and tangled than Iris could ever have imagined.</p><p><b>A beautifully written and addictively compelling historical novel about the terrible choices ordinary people were forced to make in the horrors of World War Two.</b> <b>If you loved <i>The Tattooist of Auschwitz</i> <i>The Alice Network </i>and <i>The Nightingale</i> you will devour this book.</b></p>