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Book length - 280 pages Publisher - Off The Press Books Worldwide - www.bookdepository.com Amazon UK - www.amazon.co.uk Amazon US - www.amazon.com I want to thank Claire for providing me with a copy of this book for review. ABOUT THIS BOOK Can you leave the past in another country? Francesca Maier knows little of her father's home country or her parents' life together before she was born. A summer in Berlin brings the past - and its secrets - alive. Adrift in a foreign city, she finds an unexpected friend in east Berliner Antonio - but what will he sacrifice to save her? MY REVIEW A compelling story with engaging characters, SAVING FRANCESCA MAIER by Claire Wingfield is a story about familial relationships in all of their complexities. Francesca doesn't know much about her father's home city of Berlin but she has the entire summer to explore it and get a feel for it as she travels with her mother. After a fraught journey to get there, their arrival doesn't exactly go to plan. But it isn't long before Francesca, in all of her youth and sometimes naivety, begins her own adventure, discovering places and people who will change her outlook and open her eyes to so much. Including secrets that may change everything. From the beginning, we can sense that there is a fraught tension between Francesca's parents and as the story begins to evolve this becomes even clearer, and we, like Francesca, want to figure out just what exactly is going on. With a lot of freedom for a girl of her age, Francesca begins to search and explore Berlin all for herself, and the setting comes alive in this book, almost like a character all by itself, and the past and present converge in many ways which worked really well for me. SAVING FRANCESCA MAIER by Claire Wingfield is the kind of story that slowly reveals its secrets to the reader and I found myself lost in the city with Francesca, looking at everything with fresh eyes - a very enjoyable story. AUTHOR BIO Claire Wingfield graduated from her English degree at Cambridge University in 2002, and has worked in books and publishing ever since. She lives in Scotland, where she runs a busy writing and editorial consultancy. She is the author of 'Saving Francesca Maier', first in the This City series and '52 Dates for Writers - Ride a Tandem, Assume an Alias and 50 Other Ways to Improve Your Novel Draft'. For more information: Website - www.clairewingfield.co.uk Twitter - twitter.com/ClaireWingfield Facebook - www.facebook.com/clairewingfieldauthor/ Instagram - www.instagram.com/clairewingfieldauthor/
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