Thirteen-year-old Lisa escapes from Nazi Germany on the Kindertransport and arrives in England in August 1939. She can’t speak a word of English and her only belongings are crammed into a small suitcase. Among them is one precious photograph of the family she has left behind in Germany.

    Lonely and homesick, not knowing if she will ever see her family again, Lisa is adopted by a childless couple and then bullied at school for being German. But worse is to come when the Blitz blows her new home apart and she wakes up in hospital with no memory of who she is, or where she came from. The authorities give her a new name and despatch her to a children’s home. With the war in full swing, what will become of Lisa now?

    It’s well written and interesting. The backdrop of WWII and the struggles of London helped to make Lisa’s story more real. If you like historical fiction, you will enjoy this book.

    Author Diney Costeloe, a grandmother of five, writes children’s books and romantic novels. “My work is definitely fiction, but I hope it is fiction that can educate as well as entertain. There are many people who would read a book like mine, who would never read a serious history book,” she said.

    The book is available in paperback and Kindle edition at amazon.com.

    (SD-Agencies)