The Echoes of Love
Jenny Ashcroft
Reviewed by Helen
This is a beautifully told story, it is heart-breaking as well and yes I cried, lots, set from 1936 onto World War 2 in Crete and then in 1974. Things are changing in Germany and throughout Europe but in 1936 in Crete two young people fall in love, what will become of them?
Eleni Adams has come to Crete every summer as long as she can remember to spend this time with her grandfather, leaving England behind, in her eighteenth year things seem even better when she meets a young German, Otto who is holidaying in the villa next door, there is a spark instantly, and the summer becomes even more exciting as the two of them sneak away as often as they can and love grows.
Otto and Eleni continue to write to each other and meet up one time in Paris, but war comes and life changes.
When Crete falls to the Nazis Eleni returns to do her bit for her country, both of them England and Crete and Otto is there as part of the Nazi invasion and soon they are together again, enemies who love each other, with danger all around them where will it end?
This is such a well-researched story, with fabulous characters and beautiful descriptions of Crete, so much love and so many secrets, I do highly recommend this one to any reader who loves historical fiction.
My thanks to the publisher for my copy to read and review.
Eleni Adams has come to Crete every summer as long as she can remember to spend this time with her grandfather, leaving England behind, in her eighteenth year things seem even better when she meets a young German, Otto who is holidaying in the villa next door, there is a spark instantly, and the summer becomes even more exciting as the two of them sneak away as often as they can and love grows.
Otto and Eleni continue to write to each other and meet up one time in Paris, but war comes and life changes.
When Crete falls to the Nazis Eleni returns to do her bit for her country, both of them England and Crete and Otto is there as part of the Nazi invasion and soon they are together again, enemies who love each other, with danger all around them where will it end?
This is such a well-researched story, with fabulous characters and beautiful descriptions of Crete, so much love and so many secrets, I do highly recommend this one to any reader who loves historical fiction.
My thanks to the publisher for my copy to read and review.
4 stars
September 29, 2022 by HQ
