The London House
Book Feature - The London House by Katherine Reay
HBL Note: Are you on Tik Tok? A friend of mine convinced me to join, and I’m trying out a new series called First Line Story Time, in which I read the first line of a few novels and you tell me which one you’d read first. One of the first books I featured was award-winning author Katherine Reay’s THE LONDON HOUSE. Watch that tik tok here. In THE LONDON HOUSE by Katherine Reay, Caroline is torn between saving her family’s reputation and pursuing a love of her own. With glowing reviews from Kristin Harmel and Rachel McMillan, you won’t want to miss this novel. Scroll down to read more.
Book Feature - The London House by Katherine Reay
Book Feature - The London House by Katherine Reay
From the publisher:
Caroline Payne thinks it’s just another day of work until she receives a call from Mat Hammond, an old college friend and historian. But pleasantries are cut short. Mat has uncovered a scandalous secret kept buried for decades: In World War II, Caroline’s British great-aunt betrayed family and country to marry her German lover.
Determined to find answers and save her family’s reputation, Caroline flies to her family’s ancestral home in London. She and Mat discover diaries and letters that reveal her grandmother and great-aunt were known as the “Waite sisters.” Popular and witty, they came of age during the interwar years, a time of peace and luxury filled with dances, jazz clubs, and romance. The buoyant tone of the correspondence soon yields to sadder revelations as the sisters grow apart, and one leaves home for the glittering fashion scene of Paris, despite rumblings of a coming world war.
Each letter brings more questions. Was Caroline’s great-aunt actually a traitor and Nazi collaborator, or is there a more complex truth buried in the past? Together, Caroline and Mat uncover stories of spies and secrets, love and heartbreak, and the events of one fateful evening in 1941 that changed everything.
In this rich historical novel from award-winning author Katherine Reay, a young woman is tasked with writing the next chapter of her family’s story. But Caroline must choose whether to embrace a love of her own and proceed with caution if her family’s decades-old wounds are to heal without tearing them even further apart.
Book Feature - The London House by Katherine Reay
