The female spies, operating radios in occupied Europe, whose chance of survival was twenty-five percent. Escape from Colditz, The Dam Busters, Kennedy and his PT Boat.īut what about the quiet bravery of women? The unsung heroines who delivered the big planes to air bases (and the government would not pay for their burial should those planes crash). Immediately after the war there were firsthand accounts, of battles and bravery: all by men. If we don’t read and write about it, the details will be forgotten. I believe that a primary reason is that we are now far enough away from the war that it has become history and the generation who fought it is now largely dead. It seems the appetite for these books is unquenchable. In the past few years there have been many successful novels about the war-I’ll give you some suggestions at the end of this. So clearly people are interested in WWII. THE TUSCAN CHILD has sold close to a million copies worldwide and The Venice Sketchbook is on its way to repeating that success. All featuring aspects of life during the Second World War. Since then, I have written THE TUSCAN CHILD, THE VENICE SKETCHBOOK and my upcoming title, WHERE THE SKY BEGINS. It was snapped up by Lake Union (Amazon’s women’s fiction line) and came out as IN FARLEIGH FIELD.
I shared it with my current agent who loved it. Many years and a new agent later, I found it again and decided it would still make a good story. Inspired by the events and people of World War II, writer Rhys Bowen crafts a sweeping and riveting saga of class, family, love, and betrayal.So, I put the idea aside.
Can he, with Pamela's help, stop them before England falls? But Pamela has her own secret: she has taken a job at Bletchley Park, the British code-breaking facility.Īs Ben follows a trail of spies and traitors, which may include another member of Pamela's family, he discovers that some within the realm have an appalling, history-altering agenda. The assignment also offers Ben the chance to be near Lord Westerham's middle daughter, Pamela, whom he furtively loves. After his uniform and possessions raise suspicions, MI5 operative and family friend Ben Cresswell is covertly tasked with determining if the man is a German spy. World War II comes to Farleigh Place, the ancestral home of Lord Westerham and his five daughters, when a soldier with a failed parachute falls to his death on the estate. Winner of the Left Coast Crime Award winner for Best Historical Mystery Novel and the Agatha Award for Best Historical Novel. Lee Child, New York Times bestselling author Instantly absorbing, suspenseful, romantic, and stylish-like binge-watching a great British drama on Masterpiece Theater.
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