Two Lives

"From the author of Saint X, a stunning novel about two children sent to a farm in the English countryside at the onset of World War II and the year they spent together that will alter the course of their lives Evelyn Lieberman has always been good at carrying her grief while carrying on. A widow in a Florida retirement community, she keeps busy with regular visits to her grandchildren and a full social calendar with her friends, the Girls. She speaks little about her past and is proud of the life she has built in the present. But when Evelyn chances upon a book by a prominent British author that tells a hauntingly familiar personal story, she decides it may finally be time to seek out the book's writer, the only other person who could have known what happened all those decades ago. In the novel Evelyn discovers, two children are sent to England, taken in by a woman they learn to call Mum. Thrown together into an unfamiliar, bucolic world and grappling with the traumatic separation from their families, the children go to increasing lengths to test the limits of their caregiver's kindness. The novel's ending shocks Evelyn. Where does fact end and fiction begin? And can she trust her own memories to point her to the truth? Spanning prewar Vienna, the Yorkshire moors, postwar New York, a Florida retirement community, and the London literary world, Two Lives is a sweeping and masterful exploration of heritage, memory, and the human yearning to reconcile our pasts with our present and take the measure of our lives"-- Provided by publisher.