Hidden Storyteller - Mandy Robotham

Historical Fiction

Rating: 8/10

Journalist Georgie isn’t prepared for what she finds when she returns to Germany once the war is over. The war might be over, but the ravages of it are plain to see. A crumbling city, hundreds of thousands of displaced souls as hungry for warmth as they are for food.

Can she write a story in a way that makes those back in England see the heart of these people amongst the wreckage of a war they did not want? Along the way she becomes embroiled in an investigation of a man killing young women. Forming friendships with the head detective, her translator and a teenager living on the streets desperate to help them in exchange for some form of currency she can trade.

The blend of thriller and historical fiction creates a pathway for a reader such as myself, someone who doesn’t want to spend too many reading hours in the midst of the minutiae of war.

This author writes poignantly of not only the harrowing impacts of war, but also the hopeful ones. Beautifully depicting that the love you may have lost might be found anew. I applaud her ability to write of a deep love between a man and a woman that isn’t a romance.

Book Pairing(s): The Girl Behind The Wall by Mandy Robotham, Russian Doll by Kristen Loesch, The Four Winds by Kristin Hannah