The secret history of Audrey James
(2025)

Fiction

Book

Call Numbers:
FICTION/MARSHALL,H

Availability

Locations Call Number Status
Fiction FICTION/MARSHALL,H Available

Details

PUBLISHED
New York : Ballantine, 2025
DESCRIPTION

452 pages ; 21 cm

ISBN/ISSN
9780593975480, 0593975480 :, 0593975480, 9780593975480
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES

"An astonishing historical novel of one woman's dangerous journey through World War II Germany and her life-changing friendship with a young woman decades later-from the #1 international bestselling author of Looking for Jane"--

Northern England, 2010. After a tragic accident upends her life, Kate Mercer leaves London to work at an old guest house near the Scottish border, where she hopes to find a fresh start and heal from her loss. When she arrives, she begins to unravel the truth about her past, but discovers that the mysterious elderly proprietor is harboring secrets of her own. Berlin, 1938. Audrey James is weeks away from graduating from a prestigious music school in Berlin, where she's been living with her best friend, Ilse Kaplan. As war looms, Ilse's family disappears and high-ranking Nazi officers confiscate the house. In desperation, Audrey becomes their housekeeper while Ilse is forced into hiding in the attic. When a shocking turn of events embroils Audrey in the anti-Hitler movement, she must decide what matters most: protecting those she loves, or sacrificing everything for the greater good