Ashes
By (Author) Christopher Vinck
Thorndike Press
Thorndike Press
5th April 2023
Large Print Edition
United States
General
Fiction
Second World War
Religious and spiritual fiction
Hardback
Width 140mm, Height 216mm
Belgium, July 1939.Simone Lyon is the daughter of Belgian national hero General Joseph Lyon. Her best friend, Hava Daniels, is the daughter of a devout Jewish family. Despite growing up in different worlds, they are inseparable. But when, in the spring of 1940, Nazi planes and tanks begin bombing Brussels, Hava and Simone find themselves caught in the advancing onslaught and are forced to flee. The two teenage girls will see their innocence fall against the backdrop of a war dictating that theirs was a friendship that should never have been.