by Ella Carey
3.75 starsThis book switches between the past and present. A girl's grandfather asked her to go to Germany for him which is strange because he never speaks of his background. He was in Germany before WWII. This story is different because it is about the climate before the actual war. Hitler had ...
I respect that this book was inspired by two different stories, one being the discovery of Madame Marthe de Florian's Parisian apartment, a decadent time capsule untouched for over seventy years. The second inspiration was a picture of an old palace in East Germany. Carey has a fine imagination but ...
#THEHOUSEBYTHELAKE 4 STARS! AVAILABLE 3/29/16 @Ella_Carey #LAKEUNIONPUB This was definitely an interesting book. To find an apartment in France that hadn't been lived in for 70 years and then to find a house in Germany that hadn't been lived in for almost that long. Seems impossible. Of course, ...