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Book Tour #The Last Train from Paris #Juliet Greenwood #Storm Publishers #Historical Fiction # Book Review #Rachel Random Resources

  MY THOUGHTS AND BOOK REVIEW Set in Paris, a beautiful city day and night, during World War 2, The Last Train from Paris is an engrossing, and intriguing dual-time thought-provoking novel. Loved the awesome writing style of the author and the pace at which the sequences take place.  1964: Iris wants to know who she is, she was visiting her adopted mom Nora at St Mabon's Cove, Cornwall as she is visiting from London. She could ask questions to her mum as she held her certificate of adoption she had first seen. No mother, No father, No hint of who she might have been, or even an exact place of birth. It seemed such a vague statement of her existence in the copy she had in her hands. She was born in 1939 the year war was declared in a country that is unlike Cornwall. She had always known that she was adopted but seeing Mum Nora and Dad named on an unofficial document had made it real. The adoption certificate was dated 1950, five years after the war had ended.  1939: Sabine...