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    Restitution
    Restitution
    Restitution
    Audiobook11 hours

    Restitution

    Written by Eliza Graham

    Narrated by Patience Tomlinson

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    About this audiobook

    February 1945. Europe is in ruins and the Red Army is searing its way across Germany’s eastern marches, revenging itself upon a petrified population. The war is over, but for some the fight for survival is only just beginning.

    Alix, the aristocratic daughter of a German resistance fighter, is alone and desperate to flee before the Reds come. But when a ferocious snowstorm descends she must return to the shelter of her abandoned ancestral home. There, she is shocked to find her childhood sweetheart Gregor. As old passions are rekindled, a couple break into the house to hide – the man, dressed in Gestapo uniform, is a stranger, but his companion is altogether more familiar.

    By morning, the blizzard has died down but the Reds are back. The woman and her Nazi escort are dead, and Gregor has vanished. Alone and terrified, Alix runs for her life, and embarks upon an extraordinary and heartbreaking journey.

    It will take sixty years and the fall of another empire – Communism – before the riddles of that fateful night can be deciphered.

    Restitution is a memorable novel about love and betrayal, hatred and heroism – a reminder that, even in the worst of times, the most courageous acts of kindness are possible.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherPan Macmillan
    Release dateJun 19, 2014
    ISBN9781447260073
    Restitution
    Author

    Eliza Graham

    Eliza Graham spent science lessons reading Jean Plaidy novels behind the textbooks, sitting at the back of the classroom. In English and history lessons, however, she sat right at the front, hanging on to every word. In the school holidays she visited the public library multiple times a day. At Oxford University she read English literature on a course that regarded anything post-1930 as too modern to be included. She retains a love of Victorian novels. Eliza lives in an ancient village in the Oxfordshire countryside with her family. Her interests (still) mainly revolve around reading, but she also enjoys walking in the downland country around her home. Find out more about Eliza on her website: www.elizagrahamauthor.com, Facebook: @ElizaGrahamUK or Twitter: @eliza_graham.

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