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'An engrossing, suspenseful page-turner that defies expectations.' Kirkus Reviews
New York, present day: On impulse, Juno Lambert buys a 1931 Underwood typewriter that once belonged to famous journalist Cordelia Capel, a fearless Pulitzer Prize winning war correspondent. Inside the case Juno finds an unfinished novel, inspiring her to travel Europe to discover the truth about Cordelia, her sister Irene, long-hidden espionage and the secret that estranged them.
Europe, 1936: Cordelia's beautiful sister Irene has married a German industrialist and moves among high society circles in Berlin. Cordelia, who longs to be a writer, accepts a job at a newspaper in Paris.
As tension mounts in pre-war Europe, the sisters exchange letters and Cordelia discovers that Irene's husband is a Nazi sympathiser.
Increasingly desperate, Cordelia writes to her beloved sister, but as life in Nazi Germany darkens, Irene dare not share the fact of her own resistance activity. Appalled at her sister’s silence, Cordelia becomes involved with the work of Britain’s top secret SOE.
Knowing that their letters cannot tell the whole story, Cordelia decides to fill in the blanks by sitting down with her Underwood and writing the truth. When Juno reads the unfinished novel, she resolves to uncover the profoundly personal secret that continued to divide the sisters amid the turmoil of love, espionage and war.
In this vivid portrait of Nazi Berlin, from its high society to its devastating fall, Jane Thynne examines the choices and secrets that divide everyone in a time of war.
Author Bio:
Jane Thynne is the author of twelve novels, including the Clara Vine espionage series set in the Europe of the 1930s and 1940s. She also writes alternative history under the pen-name C.J Carey.
Praise for The Words I Never Wrote:
"Thynne memorably portrays how the bond shared by two sisters can be fractured by politics and war. . . . Thynne’s elegant narrative immerses the reader in war-torn Europe. . . . Fans of WWII fiction with strong female characters will be immersed in this magnetic novel." Publishers Weekly
"Haunting, taut, and compelling, this portrait of two upper-class British sisters divided by World War II is a kaleidoscopic story of love and betrayal whose characters are never quite what they seem. It will capture your attention immediately and keep you thinking for a long time to come." Lynne Olson, author of Madame Fourcade’s Secret War
Genre: Historical
New York, present day: On impulse, Juno Lambert buys a 1931 Underwood typewriter that once belonged to famous journalist Cordelia Capel, a fearless Pulitzer Prize winning war correspondent. Inside the case Juno finds an unfinished novel, inspiring her to travel Europe to discover the truth about Cordelia, her sister Irene, long-hidden espionage and the secret that estranged them.
Europe, 1936: Cordelia's beautiful sister Irene has married a German industrialist and moves among high society circles in Berlin. Cordelia, who longs to be a writer, accepts a job at a newspaper in Paris.
As tension mounts in pre-war Europe, the sisters exchange letters and Cordelia discovers that Irene's husband is a Nazi sympathiser.
Increasingly desperate, Cordelia writes to her beloved sister, but as life in Nazi Germany darkens, Irene dare not share the fact of her own resistance activity. Appalled at her sister’s silence, Cordelia becomes involved with the work of Britain’s top secret SOE.
Knowing that their letters cannot tell the whole story, Cordelia decides to fill in the blanks by sitting down with her Underwood and writing the truth. When Juno reads the unfinished novel, she resolves to uncover the profoundly personal secret that continued to divide the sisters amid the turmoil of love, espionage and war.
In this vivid portrait of Nazi Berlin, from its high society to its devastating fall, Jane Thynne examines the choices and secrets that divide everyone in a time of war.
Author Bio:
Jane Thynne is the author of twelve novels, including the Clara Vine espionage series set in the Europe of the 1930s and 1940s. She also writes alternative history under the pen-name C.J Carey.
Praise for The Words I Never Wrote:
"Thynne memorably portrays how the bond shared by two sisters can be fractured by politics and war. . . . Thynne’s elegant narrative immerses the reader in war-torn Europe. . . . Fans of WWII fiction with strong female characters will be immersed in this magnetic novel." Publishers Weekly
"Haunting, taut, and compelling, this portrait of two upper-class British sisters divided by World War II is a kaleidoscopic story of love and betrayal whose characters are never quite what they seem. It will capture your attention immediately and keep you thinking for a long time to come." Lynne Olson, author of Madame Fourcade’s Secret War
Genre: Historical
Praise for this book
"The Words I Never Wrote threads its way through layers of twentieth-century history, weaving a pattern of love, loss, hope, and tragedy against a backdrop of conflict. Two sisters separated both ideologically and geographically are brought together once more when a half-finished manuscript describing their lives surfaces more than half a century later, allowing their stories to be unpicked and re-sewn together in a deeply moving narrative. Highlighting the power of the written word to bear witness to the seismic shifts of history, this is complex material beautifully stitched. I couldn’t recommend it more highly." - Elizabeth Fremantle
"A gripping account of sisters divided by war. . . . Thynne’s depiction of prewar Berlin is superb." - Daisy Goodwin
"In sumptuous prose, Jane Thynne limns the lives of two sisters ripped apart by the moral choices they made in a time of war. Dramatic, fast-paced, and emotional, The Words I Never Wrote puts the interior details of women’s lives in stark relief against the dramatic backdrop of Europe in World War II, helping readers understand the difficult choices that women made." - Elizabeth Letts
"Jane Thynne’s latest novel is magnificent. In her first standalone, she expertly intertwines the stories of three different women with secrets—two sisters on opposite sides in World War II, and the present-day young photographer who pieces their stories together. Thynne works with a journalist’s talent for choosing the telling historic detail—including cameos by the ambassador to Germany’s daughter Martha Dodd and double-agent Kim Philby—combined with a novelist’s sense of how those details come together to shape a relevant and timeless story." - Susan Elia MacNeal
"A gripping account of sisters divided by war. . . . Thynne’s depiction of prewar Berlin is superb." - Daisy Goodwin
"In sumptuous prose, Jane Thynne limns the lives of two sisters ripped apart by the moral choices they made in a time of war. Dramatic, fast-paced, and emotional, The Words I Never Wrote puts the interior details of women’s lives in stark relief against the dramatic backdrop of Europe in World War II, helping readers understand the difficult choices that women made." - Elizabeth Letts
"Jane Thynne’s latest novel is magnificent. In her first standalone, she expertly intertwines the stories of three different women with secrets—two sisters on opposite sides in World War II, and the present-day young photographer who pieces their stories together. Thynne works with a journalist’s talent for choosing the telling historic detail—including cameos by the ambassador to Germany’s daughter Martha Dodd and double-agent Kim Philby—combined with a novelist’s sense of how those details come together to shape a relevant and timeless story." - Susan Elia MacNeal
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