Leeway Cottage
Beth Gutcheon$12.71
$14.95
In April 1940, as the Nazis march into Denmark, Sydney Brant, a wealthy girl of the Dundee summer colony, marries a gifted Danish pianist, Laurus Moss. They believe they are well matched, as young lovers do, but Laurus's beloved family is in Copenhagen, hostage to what the fortunes of Hitler's war will bring. By the time the war is over, Laurus's family has played an active role in Denmark's grassroots rescue of virtually all seven thousand of the country's Jews. Meanwhile, in America, Sydney has led a group knitting for the war effort, and had a baby.
Combining the story of one long American twentieth-century marriage with one of the most stirring stories of World War II, Leeway Cottage is a beautifully written tour de force of a novel.
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: William Morrow & Company
Published: 05/09/2006
ISBN: 9780060539061
Pages: 448
Weight: 0.72lbs
Size: 8.02h x 5.30w x 1.08d
Review Citations: New York Times 06/04/2006 pg. 44