Book description
BERLIN 1948: - A vanquished city of rubble - sliced into sections by
the Allies, and set well back behind the Russian lines. A city of old
women, black marketeers and sleazy cabarets in ruined cellars.
In the British sector was Squadron Leader Michael Harrison, a war
hero who had helped to bomb Berlin into fragments. He hated the Nazis
who had killed his sister and her children. But here he was, doing his
best to ensure that food and fuel was somehow brought in to save the
surviving Berliners.
In the Russian sector was young Lili Leicht, German, middle-class
daughter of a university professor and now living in the ruins of her
former home, trying to prevent her grandfather and two younger
brothers from dying of malnutrition. Her mother had been killed by
British bombers.
As the tensions in the smouldering city grew worse, so Michael and
Lili slowly fell in love. It was a love that surmounted all the
prejudices and hatreds of war and offered a hope of understanding for
the future.
Margaret Mayhew was born in London and her earliest childhood
memories were of the London Blitz. She began writing in her mid-thirties
and had her first novel published in 1976. She is married to American
aviation author, Philip Kaplan, and lives in Gloucestershire. Her
novels, Bluebirds, The Crew, The Little Ship, Our Yanks, The Pathfinder
and Those In Peril are all published by Corgi Books.
