Found this one on the infamous Buy 2 Get 1 Free table at Barnes & Noble.
This was one of the most moving (yes another most moving, I find so many of them, and I think you will agree when you read this) stories I have ever read.
When things get hard sometimes we find help, love, and friendship, where we least expect it. Like at a circus in Germany during the worst of WWII. That is where we find the growing relationship between Noa and Astrid.
Noa is cast out of her family because of a poor choice and the consequence of that choice, a pregnancy. She finds a baby, well a lot of babies, but one specific one that changes her life and sends her running into the woods.
Astrid is from a circus family and is a flyer. She is married and living in Berlin with her husband, an officer in the Reich. And Astrid is Jewish.
When Astrid's husband sends her packing because of the rules she tries to go home, but home isn't an option anymore so she joins the neighboring circus family where she finds a new chance at life while she hides in plain sight. When Noa finds a train car full of babies after having her baby taken from her and rescues one she ends up rescued by Peter a clown who isn't at all clownish and the circus owner.
What happens next is a growing love that is so hard to nurture between the women as their secrets, fears, and the real dangers of the war, make it hard to trust. But they end up with a bond and love so deep it hurts and is so lovely and beautiful.
Oh how I loved this book!!! Strong women characters who love and need each other even as they fight it and hurt each other and themselves and grow and forgive and love and lose.
(Finished February 12, 2018)
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