Between Two Worlds

Alison Plantaine #1

by Maisie Mosco

Learning of her secret Jewish heritage for the first time, aspiring actress Alison Plantaine visits her newly discovered kin in northern England and becomes torn between her newfound home there and a life on the stage. Reprint.

Genres: Historical Fiction

482 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1984

About the author

Maisie Mosco was born as Maisie Gottlieb. Her parents were of Latvian Jewish and Viennese Jewish descent, and both emigrated to England around 1900.

She left school at the age of 14 to help in the family business. At the age of 18 she joined the ATS and at the end of World War II was helping to teach illiterate soldiers how to read. After the war, she edited the Jewish Gazette, and subsequently wrote radio plays for the BBC.

Mosco wrote 16 novels between 1979 and 1998. These included the 'Almonds and Raisins' series, which contained elements of her own family history.

She married twice: to Aubrey Liston in 1948, then to Gerald Mosco in 1957.

Reviews

[Di · Rating 3 out of 5]

AN ENJOYABLE READ WILL CERTAINLY FOLLOW UP THE TRILOGY AT SOME POINT BUT COULDNT READ 2 STRAIGHT

[Nancy H · Rating 4 out of 5]

An early twentieth-century/WWI story set in England, this novel tells of a young man whose burning desire is to be an actor, despite the disapproval and eventual shunning from his Jewish family. As he tries to achieve his goal, he falls in love with the daughter of a famous actor/director, and thinks his life will be a success. The two have a daughter, and she becomes the focus on the novel as she tries to find herself in a stage career and find out who she truly is as a person. Of course all of that is framed in the pre-WWI time period, and the war does affect the characters and plot in the story. This is an absorbing read, and the first of a trilogy.

[Liliana Carrasco · Rating 5 out of 5]

AAA I LOVED IT the way Maisie mosco writes literally builds a world around u and I rarely read a book where I feel that besides Belladonna and perks of being a wallflower. Also reading was hard bc the way she structures her sentences is like I do and when I write I have to re read an sim confused like why did I write it like that. But loved❤️so much. People should go back to calling people plain and homely looking instead of ugly and mid 💀that would be so funny