02928cam a2200421 i 4500 838967726 TxGeo 20220519120000.0 211216s2022||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2021948523 9781638082033 hbk. 1638082030 hbk. (OCoLC)1283821081 TxGeo rda Reay, Katherine, 1970- The London house : a novel / Katherine Reay. Large print edition. Thorndike, ME : Center Point Large Print, 2022. 495 pages ; 23 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier Includes discussion questions. "Caroline Payne thinks it's just another day of work until she receives a call from Mat Hammond, an old college friend and historian. But pleasantries are cut short. Mat has uncovered a scandalous secret kept buried for decades: During World War II, Caroline's British great-aunt betrayed family and country to marry her German lover. Determined to find answers and save her family's reputation, Caroline flies to her family's ancestral home in London. She and Mat discover diaries and letters that reveal her grandmother and great-aunt were known as the "Waite sisters." Popular and witty, they came of age during the interwar years, a time of peace and luxury filled with dances, jazz clubs, and romance. The buoyant tone of the correspondence soon yields to sadder revelations as the sisters grow apart, and one leaves home for the glittering fashion scene of Paris, despite rumblings of a coming world war. Each letter brings more questions. Was Caroline's great-aunt actually a traitor and Nazi collaborator, or is there a more complex truth buried in the past? Together, Caroline and Mat uncover stories of spies and secrets, love and heartbreak, and the events of one fateful evening in 1941 that changed everything. In this rich historical novel from award-winning author Katherine Reay, a young woman is tasked with writing the next chapter of her family's story. But Caroline must choose whether to embrace a love of her own or proceed with caution if her family's decades-old wounds are to heal without tearing them even further apart"-- Provided by publisher. 20220603. World War, 1939-1945 Fiction. Family secrets Fiction. Artists Fiction. Sisters Fiction. Twins Fiction. Paris (France) Fiction. London (England) Fiction. Historical fiction. Spy fiction. Epistolary fiction. Large type books. QS5