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Drinking coffee in a tea room on a 72-hour pass, young American pilot Tom Blake watches a woman who is waiting for a friend. He isn't looking for love, but seeing Anna Pilgrim on this cold winter afternoon changes everything. So begins a passionate affair. Their happiness does not last. Shot down over Europe, wounded, in hiding, Tom has no way of telling Anna he is alive. And Anna, left waiting in England, has no way of finding out. Separated by the war, they have only the strength of their love and their memories to connect them. When Anna discovers she is pregnant, she must face the gossip of others and the wrath of her bitter and manipulative mother. Weeks, then months pass without news, and she begins to lose hope. How can she know that Tom is struggling to return to her? Or that the thought of being with her again is all that keeps him going on the long and arduous journey home? Interwoven with the brutality and danger of Tom's fight to survive is the story of Anna's own struggle to face the uncertainty of waiting. Set vividly against the hardship and horror of the Second World War, ANOTHER TIME AND PLACE is at once a compelling love story, an enthralling adventure and a moving depiction of the resilience of the human spirit. Author Samantha Grosser is an English graduate who spent several years travelling and working as an English... Author Website
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Historical fiction author Samantha Grosser has an Honours Degree in English Literature and spent many years teaching English both in Asia and Australia. Now, combining a lifelong love of history with a compulsion to write that dates from childhood, Samantha is bringing her passion for telling compelling stories to the world.
She is the author of wartime dramas ANOTHER TIME AND PLACE and THE OFFICER'S AFFAIR. Her third novel, THE KING JAMES MEN, which is set during the turbulent years of the early years of 17th Century, will be released in November.
Although she originally hails from England, she now lives on the sunny beaches of Sydney, Australia with her husband, son and a very small dog called Livvy.
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- PublisherMacmillan
- ISBN 10 0230002358
- ISBN 13 9780230002357
- BindingHardcover
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