A Bridge Across the Ocean
by Susan Meissner.
February 1946. World War Two is over but the recovery from the most intimate of its horrors has to just begun for Annaliese Lange, a German ballerina desperate to escape her past, Simone Deveraux, the wronged daughter of a French Resistance spy.
Now the two women are joining other European war brides aboard the renowned RMS Queen Mary to cross the Atlantic and be reunited with their American husbands. Their new lives in the United States brightly beacon until their tightly-lipped are laid bare in their shared stateroom. When the voyage ends at New York Harbor, only one of them will disembark...
Present day. Facing a crossroads in her own life, Brette Caslake visits the famously haunted Queen Mary at the request of an old friend. What she finds will set her on a course to solve a seventy-year-old tragedy that will draw her into the heartaches and the triumphs of the courageous war brides and will ultimately lead her to reconsider what she has to sacrifice to achieve her greatest longing.
When I started this book I was drawn to it at first strictly by the cover. It looked very intriguing and I knew I just had to get my hands on this book. I usually do not read books that have a ghost, paranormal activity, or that in it but I had heard about how haunted the Queen Mary is noted to be and was so excited to hear this is an actual real ship, that it was used to transport the War Brides. In my mind eyes, this made the book more exciting and the possibility of ghost more believable.
Told in a multi-voiced narrative, we are taken in by the three unique women. Brette is a modern day woman with a special gift of sight. She knew female family members had this ability but that it also can skip generations. Brette has the sight but her mother does not. Brette learned that people have a hard time accepting her abilities so to deal with it, she simply avoids it.
Brette is asked by an old friend, loosely termed, to help his six-year-old daughter. He is at his wit's end and Brette is the only one he knows that could possibly help them. Brette lets him know that she could give him no guarantees. While looking for Trevor's wife, she gets lead down to the sick bay where there is a list of all those that died while on the Queen Mary, the name she is pointed to is Annaliese Krutz. As Brette dives in to find out what exactly happened to Annaliese she finds Simone, a daughter of a French Resistance spy.
The journey takes you from the childhood of all three women and how two became to be on the "war bride ship" to America.
A bittersweet journey for Simone and Annaliese as they leave behind a part of themselves when they board the Queen Mary.
I like the blend of the factual history of the fictional history, the three women's tales of their personal struggles, their heartbreak, and their eventual triumphs. If you like history, you would probably like this book, it isn't heavily laden down with ghostly images or beings, and just the right blend of romance thrown into the mix. I can comfortably give this ⭐⭐⭐⭐and stretch it into the fifth one.
Thank You to NetGalley, Berkley Publishing for my copy for an honest review.
Present day. Facing a crossroads in her own life, Brette Caslake visits the famously haunted Queen Mary at the request of an old friend. What she finds will set her on a course to solve a seventy-year-old tragedy that will draw her into the heartaches and the triumphs of the courageous war brides and will ultimately lead her to reconsider what she has to sacrifice to achieve her greatest longing.
When I started this book I was drawn to it at first strictly by the cover. It looked very intriguing and I knew I just had to get my hands on this book. I usually do not read books that have a ghost, paranormal activity, or that in it but I had heard about how haunted the Queen Mary is noted to be and was so excited to hear this is an actual real ship, that it was used to transport the War Brides. In my mind eyes, this made the book more exciting and the possibility of ghost more believable.
Told in a multi-voiced narrative, we are taken in by the three unique women. Brette is a modern day woman with a special gift of sight. She knew female family members had this ability but that it also can skip generations. Brette has the sight but her mother does not. Brette learned that people have a hard time accepting her abilities so to deal with it, she simply avoids it.
Brette is asked by an old friend, loosely termed, to help his six-year-old daughter. He is at his wit's end and Brette is the only one he knows that could possibly help them. Brette lets him know that she could give him no guarantees. While looking for Trevor's wife, she gets lead down to the sick bay where there is a list of all those that died while on the Queen Mary, the name she is pointed to is Annaliese Krutz. As Brette dives in to find out what exactly happened to Annaliese she finds Simone, a daughter of a French Resistance spy.
The journey takes you from the childhood of all three women and how two became to be on the "war bride ship" to America.
A bittersweet journey for Simone and Annaliese as they leave behind a part of themselves when they board the Queen Mary.
I like the blend of the factual history of the fictional history, the three women's tales of their personal struggles, their heartbreak, and their eventual triumphs. If you like history, you would probably like this book, it isn't heavily laden down with ghostly images or beings, and just the right blend of romance thrown into the mix. I can comfortably give this ⭐⭐⭐⭐and stretch it into the fifth one.
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