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The Silent Resistance: The heartbreaking World War Two historical novel
By (Author) Anna Normann
Allison & Busby
Allison & Busby
16th September 2025
19th June 2025
United Kingdom
General
Fiction
823.92
Paperback
352
Width 129mm, Height 198mm
Occupied Norway, 1944: Anni endures the war alone, aiding the resistance while longing for news of her missing sailor husband. Her daughter, Ingrid, is her joy, and she is determined to keep her safe. But when a German official is billeted at their home, danger escalates, forcing Anni into an impossible choice.London, 1952: Ingrid has been trying to understand her mother's mysterious disappearance at the war's end. Clinging to Anni's promise that she would always come back for her, Ingrid sets out to discover what happened to her mother all those years ago.
Anna Normann is the pseudonym of authors Anan Singh and Natalie Normann who have been writing together in Norwegian for many years. Anan was born in northern India and had his first short story published in an Indian newspaper at fourteen. Natalie grew up on the west coast of Norway and has always been fascinated with the country's period of occupation. She is a prolific historical romance writer in her native language and more recently published two contemporary Norwegian-set romances in English. The Silent Resistance is their first collaboration in English.