An achingly beautiful work of historical fiction that moves between Germany on the eve of WW2 and present-day Wisconsin, unspooling a thread of love, longing, and the ceaseless push and pull of family…

Germany 1930s. Annelise is a dreamer: imagining her future while working at her parents' popular bakery in Feldenheim, Germany, anticipating all the delicious possibilities yet to come. There are rumours that anti-Jewish sentiment is on the rise, but Annelise and her parents can't quite believe that it will affect them; they're hardly religious at all.

But as Annelise falls in love, marries, and gives birth to her daughter Ruthie, the dangers grow closer: a brick thrown through her window; a childhood friend who cuts ties with her; customers refusing to patronise the bakery. Luckily Annelise and her husband are given the chance to leave for America, but they must go without her parents, whose future and safety are uncertain.

Two generations later, in a small Midwestern city, Ruthie's daughter and Annelise's granddaughter, Clare, is a young woman newly in love. But when she stumbles upon her grandmother's letters from Germany, she sees the history of her family's sacrifices in a new light.

Suddenly Clare is faced with an impossible choice: the past, or her future…

Product Information: 
• ISBN:  9781529381641
• Author:  Lauren Fox
• Publisher:  Two Roads
• Format:  Paperback
• Pages:  272
• Dimensions:  15.2 x 2.4 x 23.4 cm