The Prisoner’s Wife tells of an incredible risk, and of how our deepest bonds are tested in desperate times. Bill and Izzy’s story is one of love and survival against the darkest odds. About The Prisoner’s Wife. Inspired by the true story of a daring deception that plunges a courageous young woman deep into the horrors of a Nazi POW camp to be with the man she www.doorway.ru: Maggie Brookes. · Maggie Brookes is a British ex-journalist and BBC television producer turned poet and novelist. The Prisoner’s Wife is based on an extraordinary true story of love and courage, told to her by an ex-WW2 prisoner of war. Maggie visited the Czech Republic, Poland and Germany as part of her research for the book, learning largely forgotten aspects of the war/5. Maggie Brookes is a British ex-journalist and BBC television producer turned poet and novelist. 'The Prisoner’s Wife' is based on an extraordinary true story of love and courage, which was told to her in a lift by an ex-WW2 prisoner of war/5().
item 7 The Prisoner's Wife by Maggie Brookes 7 - The Prisoner's Wife by Maggie Brookes. $ Free shipping. See all 23 - All listings for this product. Ratings and Reviews. Write a review. out of 5 stars based on 1 product rating. 1 product rating. 5. 1 users rated this 5 out of 5 stars 1. 4. Stars. Set during WWII, Maggie Brookes' new novel The Prisoner's Wife follows a British soldier named Bill and a Czech girl named Izzy. Bill is a POW who has been sent, along with several other prisoners, to labor at Izzy's family's farm. As soon as Bill and Izzy meet, sparks fly and they quickly fall in love. The Prisoner's Wifeby Maggie Brookes. Inspired by the true story of a daring deception that plunges a courageous young woman deep into the horrors of a Nazi POW camp to be with the man she loves. In the dead of night, a Czech farm girl and a British soldier travel through the countryside. Izabela and prisoner of war Bill have secretly married.
Drawing on a true story told to her and meticulous research of prisoners’ lives in Nazi prisoner of war camps including the locations these are in, Maggie Brookes has written a gripping novel which is so fully realized that I didn’t feel as if I was reading a novel at all but living and sharing the minutiae of the day to day lives of the main characters as they contrived ways of coping with hunger, intense cold, brutal treatment and, towards the end of the book, undertaking a very long. I received an Advance Reading Copy of The Prisoner’s Wife by Maggie Brookes from the publisher (Berkley) in exchange for an honest review. The Prisoner’s Wife is scheduled for release on . The Prisoner’s Wife is a novel inspired by a true story. Brookes states in her note at the end of the book that while talking to an English POW during WWII, he told her about a woman who had hidden in their midst, in order to be with her husband. The Prisoner’s Wife tells of an incredible risk, and of how our deepest bonds are tested in desperate times. Bill and Izzy’s story is one of love and survival against the darkest odds. About The Prisoner’s Wife. Inspired by the true story of a daring deception that plunges a courageous young woman deep into the horrors of a Nazi POW camp to be with the man she loves.
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