Between Two Worlds

Alison Plantaine #1

by Maisie Mosco

In a changing world is there room for tradition as well as new ways?

Alison Plantaine was born to the theatre. As a child the life she knew was one of back-stage dramas and highly-charged emotions. The desire to perform is in her Plantaine blood. But when Alison learns about her secret heritage it makes her question the path she has chosen.

Meanwhile, tastes are changing and the family passion for acting is losing touch with trends. A war is breaking out and Alison senses change in the air. Her mother is a gifted actress and wants her daughter to follow in her footsteps. Her father, shrewd and practical, understands that his daughter’s respect for family tradition must not stifle her talent and the promise of success. But the decision must be Alison’s and she becomes torn between duty and heritage, or the life she always dreamed of on the stage.

A vivid and emotional family saga from a much-loved author, perfect for fans of Rita Bradshaw and Margaret Dickinson.

Praise for Maisie Mosco

‘Once in every generation or so a book comes along which lifts the curtain’ Guardian

'Full of freshness and fascination’ Manchester Evening News

“The undisputed queen of her genre’ Jewish Chronicle

Genres: Historical Fiction

385 pages, Kindle Edition

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