**"Exciting, heartbreaking, and far from ordinary."_-- Kirkus_ __ Emily Henry is "one of YA's preeminent voices....an exquisite, genre-bending novel._-- Booklist_ __ _The Serpent King_ meets _Stranger Things_ in Emily Henry's gripping novel about a group of friends in a small town who find
When the Sky Fell Apart
β Scribed by Lea, Caroline
- Publisher
- The Text Publishing Company
- Year
- 2015;2016
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 196 KB
- Edition
- Reprint
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN
- 1922253391
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β¦ Synopsis
Jersey, June 1940.
It starts with the burning man on the beach just after the bombs land, obliterating the last shred of hope that Hitler will avert his attention from the Channel Islands. Within weeks, 12,000 German troops land on the Jersey beaches, heralding a new era of occupation.
For ten-year-old Claudine, it means a re-education under German rule, and as she befriends one of the soldiers, she inadvertently opens the gateway to a more sinister influence in her home with devastating consequences.
For Maurice, a local fisherman, it means protecting his sick wife at all costsβeven if it endangers his own life.
Edith, the islandβs unofficial homeopath, is a Jerriais through to her bones. But even she canβt save everyone, no matter how hard she tries.
And as for English doctor Tim Carterβon the arrival of the brutal German Commandant, he becomes the subject of a terrifying regime that causes the locals to brand him a traitor, unaware...
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