Some News About The Lost English Girl

Hint: It includes a biiiiig price drop!

If your inbox looks anything like mine at the moment, it’s stuffed full of Black Friday and Cyber Monday emails listing out sales on everything from shoes to pots and pans. Normally I would let things settle down a little bit before sending you a newsletter, but there’s a pretty huge discount on one of my book at the moment and it didn’t seem right not to tell you!

The Lost English Girl, one of my World War 2-set historical novels, is a Kindle Monthly Deal! That means that the price of the ebook on Amazon has dropped from $13.99 to $1.99 for the month of December!

If you’re curious and want to learn more about the book, here’s a look at the synopsis.

Combining “fast-paced historical fiction with a hint of suspense” (Booklist), this epic saga from Julia Kelly explores love, motherhood, and betrayal set against World War II.

Liverpool, 1935: Raised in a strict Catholic family, Viv Byrne knows what’s expected of her: marry a Catholic man from her working-class neighborhood and have his children. However, when she finds herself pregnant after a fling with Joshua Levinson, a Jewish man with dreams of becoming a famous jazz musician, Viv knows that a swift wedding is the only answer. Her only solace is that marrying Joshua will mean escaping her strict mother’s scrutiny. But when Joshua makes a life-changing choice on their wedding day, Viv is forced once again into the arms of her disapproving family.

Five years later and on the eve of World War II, Viv is faced with the impossible choice to evacuate her young daughter, Maggie, to the countryside. In New York City, Joshua gives up his failing musical career to serve in the Royal Air Force and try to piece together his feelings about the family he left behind. However, tragedy strikes when Viv learns that the countryside safe haven she sent her daughter to wasn’t immune from the horrors of war. It is only years later, with Joshua’s help, that Viv learns the secrets of their shared past and what it will take to put a family back together again.

Telling the harrowing story of England’s many evacuated children, Kelly’s The Lost English Girl “will hook readers from the first page” (Publishers Weekly, starred review).