My Father's House: AS SEEN ON BBC BETWEEN THE COVERS (Rome Escape Line Book 1)

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It’s an incredibly dangerous but tightly-run clandestine operation, and O’Flaherty remains frustratingly out of Hauptmann's grasp. And it was as he was talking about some of his other books that I realised just how long I’ve been reading him. It is an unforgettable novel of love, sacrifice and what it means to be human in the most extreme circumstances. The Vatican City was supposed to be neutral, but during WWII, it was a place where Allied troops and Jews were smuggled. Written in O´Connor´s usual lyrical,perfect prose,it´s moving,thought provoking and full of perfectly rounded characters,most of which you´d like as friends.

There were times when I was almost reading with my eyes closed because I couldn’t handle the suspense. I’m happy I investigated this ‘great escape’ novel set in the Vatican during WW2 and featuring an Irishman and an escape route I’d never heard of before. Thank you to Dreamscape Media LLC for allowing me to listen to the audiobook of My Father’s House by Joseph O’Connor through Netgalley in exchange for my honest and unbiased review. The final chase scene has a cinematic quality with high stakes and increasing tension and reminded me of Donald Sutherland in ‘don’t look now,’ with the dark alleys, water and piazzas at night. The mission is to smuggle Jews and escaped Allied prisoners out of Italy to safety - all this under the ever watchful eyes of the Nazis, and one Nazi in particular, Obersturmbannfurher Paul Hauptmann.One hot summer day, stuck in traffic on her way to pick up the cake for her daughter's sixteenth birthday party, Grace Adams snaps. In the shadow of lavish estates, extravagant parties, predatory business deals, and calculated political influence, three lives become dangerously intertwined: Ajay is the watchful servant, born into poverty, who rises through the family's ranks. An absolute gut punch of a book that throbs with all the rage of a middle-aged woman who refuses to go quietly' RED 'Readers will relish the letting loose of one woman's long-suppressed righteous rage .

This enables the reader to hear their individual voices, to gain a strong sense of their different personalities and varied backgrounds and all are well fleshed out. In 2009 he was the Harman Visiting Professor of Creative Writing at Baruch College, the City University of New York. Jews, escaped Allied prisoners and diplomats knew that if they entered Vatican City they had a chance of survival. I was held captive with O’Connor’s premise; a choir conductor and choir preparing for a performance!This is book one of the Rome escape line trilogy, so I'll be looking forward to the next two release from Joseph O’Connor. The novel is told as a countdown to the Rendimento (whose literal meaning is performance) a daring mission which is to take place on Christmas Eve 1943. Life inside the Vatican is described in excellent detail as are the numerous back streets and hidden places in the city of Rome. The book alternates between that time period and twenty years later as those who aided in the escapes are interviewed by PBS. A beautiful, haunting novel, in which nothing is quite as it seems, Old God's Time is about what we live through, what we live with, and what may survive of us.