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Helpful Score: 4
Leeway Cottage, made me think of a relative who fought in World War II and brought home a foreign bride who, for an unknown period of time, suffered in Hitlers concentration camps. The couple raised three children and maintained a union for more than five decades. Sometimes, curious family members often wondered how their marriage sustained such length. I felt this book gave me insight about how love during war and after can survive. It is the same with the story of American-born Annabelle Sydney Brant Moss. Her marriage to her Danish-born husband during the war results in a Danish resistance story (which Im really into right now) and brings to mind how men and women from the WWII generation seemed to be able to maintain lasting marriages (50+ years) despite the horrors of war, separation from their families and the changes that happen to them after surviving such danger.
The backdrop in Leeway Cottage takes the reader to places such as Maine, New York City, Denmark and Sweden. I particularly like how the book reveals what happens in their marriage as they parent three children together and later enter old age.
Without revealing some of the horrendous and unspeakable war crimes contained in this book, you should know I privately cried and prayed for more than an hour after putting this book down. I prayed for every person known to me and unknown who has suffered in any way, been tortured or carries emotional hurts or physical scars from unthinkable acts.
The backdrop in Leeway Cottage takes the reader to places such as Maine, New York City, Denmark and Sweden. I particularly like how the book reveals what happens in their marriage as they parent three children together and later enter old age.
Without revealing some of the horrendous and unspeakable war crimes contained in this book, you should know I privately cried and prayed for more than an hour after putting this book down. I prayed for every person known to me and unknown who has suffered in any way, been tortured or carries emotional hurts or physical scars from unthinkable acts.
