Until We Find Home by Cathy Gohlke

For American Claire Stewart, joining the French Resistance sounded as romantic as the storylines she hopes will one day grace the novels she wants to write. But when she finds herself stranded on English shores, with five French Jewish children she smuggled across the channel before Nazis stormed Paris, reality feels more akin to fear.

With nowhere to go, Claire throws herself on the mercy of an estranged aunt, begging Lady Miranda Langford to take the children into her magnificent estate. Heavily weighted with grief of her own, Miranda reluctantly agrees . . . if Claire will stay to help. Though desperate to return to France and the man she loves, Claire has few options. But her tumultuous upbringing—spent in the refuge of novels with fictional friends—has ill-prepared her for the daily dramas of raising children, or for the way David Campbell, a fellow American boarder, challenges her notions of love. Nor could she foresee how the tentacles of war will invade their quiet haven, threatening all who have come to call Bluebell Wood home and risking the only family she’s ever known.

When the book first started I found Claire to be rather immature.  She seemed to be romanticizing the war and her role in it.  All she seemed to think about was getting back to France and not about the children she was bringing to England. She was kind of whinny. As the story progressed, she did develop into what I thought was a more mature person.  The book did open my eyes to the plight of the Jewish children under Hitler's reign of terror. 

I received this book from the publisher in exchange for an honest review.  I was not compensated in any way.

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