What a lovely story! What glorious writing! This book was a Richard and Judy British Book Award for 2008, only just discovered by me on the shelf of my local library (Church Stretton in the glorious Shropshire Hills) this week. It proves that some of the best story themes come from true tales and that truth is often much stranger than fiction.
Moritz Daniecki and Leo Deakin are both in love. They are born 2 generations and half a world apart but love keeps them alive and yet threatens their sanity. Their loves are bigger than each of them, transcends death and teaches each of them fear and joy in equal measure. In the end, they learn that they are joined by love more closely than they could ever imagine.
A wonderfully uplifting story that made me believe in the power and glory of love as never before - it has too because Moritz and his Lotte are real people! Read it and laugh as you weep.
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