Another Time and Place (Macmillan New Writing) - Softcover

Grosser, Samantha

9780230007338: Another Time and Place (Macmillan New Writing)

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ISBN 10: 0230007333 ISBN 13: 9780230007338

Publisher: Macmillan New Writing, 2006

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Drinking coffee in a tea room on a 72-hour pass, young American pilot Tom Blake watches a woman who is waiting for a friend. He isn't looking for love, but seeing Anna Pilgrim on this cold winter afternoon changes everything. So begins a passionate affair. Their happiness does not last. Shot down over Europe, wounded, in hiding, Tom has no way of telling Anna he is alive. And Anna, left waiting in England, has no way of finding out. Separated by the war, they have only the strength of their love and their memories to connect them. When Anna discovers she is pregnant, she must face the gossip of others and the wrath of her bitter and manipulative mother. Weeks, then months pass without news, and she begins to lose hope. How can she know that Tom is struggling to return to her? Or that the thought of being with her again is all that keeps him going on the long and arduous journey home? Interwoven with the brutality and danger of Tom's fight to survive is the story of Anna's own struggle to face the uncertainty of waiting. Set vividly against the hardship and horror of the Second World War, Another Time and Place is at once a compelling love story, an enthralling adventure and a moving depiction of the resilience of the human spirit.

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Review

"A good story well told." -- Ann Oughton, Historical Novels Review, February 2007

"This is a meticulously researched story that feels like it could have been
written back in 1945." -- Rachel Howells, The Big Issue in the North, November 20, 2006

"Samantha Grosser skilfully weaves a well-crafted, opportunist
love story set during the penultimate year of World War II."
-- Joe Spurgeon, Venue magazine, December 1, 2006

'Samantha Grosser skillfully weaves a well-crafted, opportunist
love story set during the penultimate year of World War II' -- Venue Magazine

'This is a meticulously researched story that feels like it could
have been written back in 1945.'
-- The Big Issue in the North

About the Author

Samantha Grosser is an English graduate who spent several years travelling and working as an English teacher in South East Asia, Japan and Australia. She recently returned to the UK and now lives in Bristol with her Australian husband and young son.

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