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Book Review of The Secret Book of Flora Lea

The Secret Book of Flora Lea
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The story moved back and forth between 1940 to 1960, so it was easy to follow along. It didn't have the excitement of her book Surviving Savannah, but her characters were quite real and easy to imagine. Her tale took us to the British countryside during WWII, and the tale of two little girls who were sent away to a "safe area" during the war to get them out of London. The latter part of the story finds one of the girls working in a rare book shop, when something she finds might help her make sense of the last twenty years of her life. Characters weave in and out of her life, and we hope things will have a happy ending!