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This P&P retelling was a joy - great fun, with just enough weight behind it to keep things interesting.

Aspiring poet and newly qualified teacher Ayesha keeps crossing paths with traditional, awkward, judgemental Khalid. Then things get complicated! Their family/friends and situations are so well drawn. And is it wrong to have a soft-spot for a money-minded wrestling life-coach?

Thanks to #ReadersFirst for the ARC - I loved it!

Due to overwhelming stress at work (I think), I've been in a total reading slump for the past month. This book is the only thing I've liked! A great premise and engaging characters made this the perfect escape.

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Based on true events this love story between the wife of Nazi officer and Jewish girl is quite extraordinary. What I found very interesting are two things: construction of it - combination of real letters, poems between Aimee & Jaguar (Felice Schragenheim), dialogues which are built from the interviews with the Elisabeth/Lilly/Aimee Wust, and the second - depiction of the war. At the beginning WW II is almost just the backdrop for the love part 👇