As Spain fights for its freedom against tyranny, Felix, a young nurse, battles a conflict of the heart. While the Spanish Civil War rages around her, she must make a life-changing choice… This passionate historical adventure takes you on a journey inspired by the author’s own family history. An epic romance set against the backdrop of one of Europe’s most violent civil wars, it fuses heady emotional impact with a gripping portrait of a nation in turmoil.

Product Details

Catalogue number

9229 in EU Secondary Rewards Catalogue 2018/19

Format

Paperback

ISBN

9781471400094

Publisher

Hot Key Books

Date published

October 1st, 2012

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Accelerated Reader

AR book level: 4.2; Middle years plus; 9.0 points

Other details

288 pages

Condition

New

UK edition

Available in these packs

Middle Secondary 480L-1100LPkB

eur prices

Offer price: €348.01

RRP: €358.63

gbp prices

Offer price: £261.66

RRP: £269.65

Author/Illustrator

Lydia Syson

Lydia Syson is a fifth-generation North Londoner who now lives south of the river. Although writing a novel was a very early ambition, it took her rather a long time to get round to A World Between Us. In the meantime, she went from being a World Service radio listener in Botswana to a producer in London, leaving the BBC after her first child was born. Three more children later she wrote a biography of Britain’s first fertility guru,Doctor of Love: James Graham and His Celestial Bed, telling the full story of the charismatic eighteenth-century ‘electric’ doctor. Getting to Timbuktu is still on the ‘to do’ list – explorers, poets and Timbuktu fever were the subject of the PhD she finished in 2003 – but the current humanitarian and political crisis in Mali makes that unlikely for some time. This year’s travels have been closer to home: her next YA novel for Hot Key Books is set mainly on Romney Marsh.

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Shakira, aged 13, Book Club Review Team
on 27 September 2012

Epic romance!

Cover: I searched for the cover and was quite surprised to be honest. It looked pretty old fashioned! But I still liked it though the characters didn’t look like the picture in my head. I like the fact that there are planes in the background as this reflects that its set in the time of the Spanish Civil War.

About: Felix is a young nurse who is in pursuit of Nat, an ardent man who’s joined the international brigades. But George is in hot pursuit of Felix. Felix decides to follow Nat to the Spanish Civil War which Nat is unaware of. Also George who is Felix’s brother’s friend has also travelled to Spain, what a coincidence! Each of them have difficult choices to make when shocking events enfold. A moving book.

What I thought: I think the book was an epic romance filled with history and drama! I liked the fact that it had a crossover appeal so you could see the story from all the characters point of view. To tell you the truth I expected this book to have far too much romance for my liking but it wasn’t too bad. I thoroughly enjoyed it! My only problem was that at some points I wanted to put the book down as it got quite boring.

I would recommend this to readers age 13+

4out of 5