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Birthright
War rages.
A mother plays a dangerous game.
This is her fight for survival.
Deep into the war, Marie Adamski has accentuated her German origins and played down her Polish ones. She is pregnant, persuading her German boyfriend to place her in the safety of Westwald, a home in Chantilly for pregnant women, whilst trying to protect her true love, and the real father of the child. But while it was Marie’s plan to get to Westwald, upon her arrival she realises that the mothers who reside there are nowhere near as important as the German babies they are rearing.
Marie’s younger sister, Lise, has been covertly seeing a young resistance fighter, Emile. Emile, with all the enthusiasm of youth, is eager for the war to really begin for him. But when it comes to the front line, he has to grow up quickly.
As the war rages around them, and loved ones are lost, will Marie and Emile be able to make it back home to those that still remain?
Birthright is a first novel from Kerry Moore, an expat teacher and writer who has been living with her family in the land of wine and cheese for a the last twenty years. Historical fiction is a passion of hers as is French culture, both of which are combined in the pages of Birthright to transport the reader to French villages during the fascinating era of the second world war.
A mother plays a dangerous game.
This is her fight for survival.
Deep into the war, Marie Adamski has accentuated her German origins and played down her Polish ones. She is pregnant, persuading her German boyfriend to place her in the safety of Westwald, a home in Chantilly for pregnant women, whilst trying to protect her true love, and the real father of the child. But while it was Marie’s plan to get to Westwald, upon her arrival she realises that the mothers who reside there are nowhere near as important as the German babies they are rearing.
Marie’s younger sister, Lise, has been covertly seeing a young resistance fighter, Emile. Emile, with all the enthusiasm of youth, is eager for the war to really begin for him. But when it comes to the front line, he has to grow up quickly.
As the war rages around them, and loved ones are lost, will Marie and Emile be able to make it back home to those that still remain?
Birthright is a first novel from Kerry Moore, an expat teacher and writer who has been living with her family in the land of wine and cheese for a the last twenty years. Historical fiction is a passion of hers as is French culture, both of which are combined in the pages of Birthright to transport the reader to French villages during the fascinating era of the second world war.
275 pages, Kindle Edition
Published January 4, 2018
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January 27, 2018
Good book...
I thought the historical info in this book was very good...the characters were easy to like for the most part and I really liked the perspective of how the French farmers were able to survive. I recommend it!
I thought the historical info in this book was very good...the characters were easy to like for the most part and I really liked the perspective of how the French farmers were able to survive. I recommend it!
March 23, 2018
Sweet WWII Romance(?)
This was a fairly easy read, sweet yet painful story (but has a fairly “happy ending”). Didn’t check but I believe it to be fiction but could see where it could have happened (and likely, did)
This was a fairly easy read, sweet yet painful story (but has a fairly “happy ending”). Didn’t check but I believe it to be fiction but could see where it could have happened (and likely, did)
January 31, 2020
World War II in France
Another story about the brutalities of war and the way that Germany and the Germans embraced Hitler and his philosophies of violence. This story concentrates on one northern family and is tough to read in some places. Ends on a note of hope.
Another story about the brutalities of war and the way that Germany and the Germans embraced Hitler and his philosophies of violence. This story concentrates on one northern family and is tough to read in some places. Ends on a note of hope.
August 30, 2025
Great story
This story gives a great glimpse of what it was like during that war period. It was good to read and something happening at every page turn. It gives a realistic view of life then where everything was hard but always look for the good and keep trekking on.
This story gives a great glimpse of what it was like during that war period. It was good to read and something happening at every page turn. It gives a realistic view of life then where everything was hard but always look for the good and keep trekking on.
October 20, 2019
An interesting story about the French resistance during WWII.
The ending is a bit odd.
The ending is a bit odd.
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