London, 1941

When Mary meets a glamorous stranger named Elizabeth she realises their lives couldn’t be more different. Elizbeth is beautiful and charming, about to set off on a dazzling adventure to Ireland where she’s inherited a grand house. Mary, shy and meek, has nothing to look forward to but the dreary life of a maid in Hampstead.

But when an air raid forces them to take shelter underground Mary’s life is suddenly changed forever. After waking up in hospital, injured but alive, the nurse mistakes her for Elizabeth and hands over her suitcase with Elizabeth’s money and tickets to Ireland inside.

This is Mary’s chance to escape the hardship of her life and start afresh.

Will she take it and what could go wrong?

My Thoughts:

The story is set in London in the 1940’s which I found such a fascinating era. There is a war going on, people have to take cover in air raid shelters, to live in that ear would of been so scary not really know what will happen next. Mary meets Elizabeth and the two could not be anymore different from each other. Mary does not have the best of lives but Elizabeth does. So when Mary ends up in hospital, she cannot believe it when the nurse thinks she is Elizabeth, she decides to play along with it and little does she realise how much her life will change but will it be for the better? It was a great story, I loved the historical side of the story and to follow Mary along her journey of being someone completely different intrigued me. It was a story that I did not want to end. I wanted to saviour it. Brilliant.

I received an ARC copy of this book for an honest review.

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