Member Review

This is my first book by Catherine Taylor but it certainly won’t be my last- in fact if there were a sequel to “The Many Seas to Guernsey” I would be first in the line to read it!
This wonderful novel is a romance, a historical novel set in WorldWar 2 and also an adventure story as the main protagonists try and stay one step ahead of their enemies in 1930s Germany.
Kitty and her bohemian family move to an inherited house in Guernsey and Lukas, a trainee Catholic priest, half English and half German spends a year there with his mother’s family.
When he meets Kitty they begin to fall in love, but human love is forbidden if he is to carry on at the seminary and become ordained. Shades of a favourite book of mine “The Thornbirds”
Eventually he returns to pre War Germany and his education, leaving Kitty bereft. When she ends up in Germany and they meet again in difficult circumstances, the reader hopes their love can be rekindled. However things have changed and Kitty makes a decision that will affect her future as does Lucas when their lives become more and more dark.
This is an amazingly well researched WW2 novel and will appeal to many sorts of readers. I was really rooting for Lukas and Kitty but the world seemed to throw so many obstacles in their way.
The descriptions of life in Germany at this time period were extremely believable and of course, incredibly chilling.
I did get the feeling on the last page that there was more of this story to be revealed…….. hopefully I will meet Kitty and Lukas again.
Thanks to NetGalley and the publishers for my advance copy.