Book description
Catherine never knew her father. A Polish exile, he disappeared when
she was a small child, leaving her only a pair of binoculars and a
lifelong love of the stars. Now in her forties, she leads a settled
academic life in Cambridge - until one day she receives a letter with
a Polish postmark from an American film-maker who is in Krakow to
research the wartime experiences of his aunt. What Konrad has
uncovered will send Catherine on a voyage of discovery not only into
Poland's past, but into her own history. And what she uncovers there
will change her life in ways she could not possibly have imagined.
Moving between present-day Krakow and wartime Poland, The
Beautiful Truth tells a passionate and moving story of the way
ordinary lives are swept up in extraordinary events. Heartbreaking and
uplifting in equal measure, it will not be easily forgotten.
Belinda Seaward is British and teaches at a boys` school in Devon.
She has spent time on a coffee plantation in Zambia, in the Middle East
and in London, where she was a news journalist on the
Daily Mail
and the
Sunday Times
. Belinda has also raised two young Arab horses.
Hotel Juliet
is her second novel
