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If you like complex characters and an involved plot this is not going to be the book for you, but if you enjoy a tale told without the need for artifice then this story about people's roots and how backgrounds can affect lives even generations down the line is an enjoyable holiday read. Fraser's father was Polish and although he had lived and married in England – was the father of two young children – he felt obliged to go and support his countrymen in the 1943 Warsaw Ghetto Uprising. Marjorie, his wife, was left to bring Fraser and his sister Margaret up on her own after her husband was killed by a German bullet.
When he met Edie they seemed to have so much in common when she explained that she was of Dutch parentage, but had been brought to England after loosing losing her father in the German bombing at the beginning of the war and her mother contracted TB. But what effect would they have on each other, on their children and even on their grandchildren?
The story is well told without wasted words and the plot is neatly built with writing which is confident and a delight to read. The adult characters lack subtlety – Fraser is too naïve to have survived in business for long and his younger daughter has no redeeming features – but I found the grandchildren endearing. At six years old the twins are worlds apart with Kate showing all the signs of making a good mother hen and George playing the scamp. I'd love to have seen more of them!
