How Do Secrets Impact Your Life?

Thank you to Goodreads and Penguin for give me a copy of Secrets of a Charmed Life by Susan Meissner.  I was given a copy of this book in exchange for an honest review.  It was also a Goodreads First Read book.

Imagine that you were separated from your sister and you might never see her again.  What questions might you have? Would they be something like where did she go?  How do I find her?  Is she still alive?  These questions not only included all siblings but a nation as English parents who sent their children away from the front of the war, in London.  Then the debilitating losses of the London Blitz struck and  permanently tore families apart.   Are you ready for the journey in Secrets ofa Charmed Life by Susan Meissner?

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“Current day, Oxford, England. Young American scholar Kendra Van Zant, eager to pursue her vision of a perfect life, interviews Isabel McFarland just when the elderly woman is ready to give up secrets about the war that she has kept for
 decades...beginning with who she really is. What Kendra receives from Isabel is both a gift and a burden--one that will test her convictions and her heart.

1940s, England. As Hitler wages an unprecedented war against London’s civilian population, one million children are evacuated to foster homes in the rural countryside. But even as fifteen-year-old Emmy Downtree and her much younger sister Julia find refuge in a charming Cotswold cottage, Emmy’s burning ambition to return to the city and apprentice with a fashion designer pits her against Julia’s profound need for her sister’s presence. Acting at cross purposes just as the Luftwaffe rains down its terrible destruction, the sisters are cruelly separated, and their lives are transformed…” (Goodreads.com)

My Thoughts: 

I loved this book!  I started  Secrets of a Charmed Life, and had to put it down in favor of a library book that would be soon. There was one problem,  I so did not want to stop reading it.  Ms. Meissner hooks the reader in her prologue when she introduces Isabell’s character.  Who is she and why did she change her name?  What happens in the London Blitz to the two sisters? 

  I loved the theme of this book that you never know where you will find family and or community.  It could be something as simple as your neighbor the half brother or sister you never knew you had.  The point is to focus on doing life together.  You never know who you might meet.

Rating:

5/5

Purchase a copy of Ms. Meissner’s current book The Last Year of the War here.