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A Lasting Promise
- Author
- Mary Wood
- Narrator
- Antonia Beamish
- Publisher
- Pan Macmillan
- Publish Date
- 19 June 2025
- Run Time
- 10 hours 25 minutes
- Format
- Audiobook
What to expect
Even in the darkest of times, love conquers all . . .
From Mary Wood, bestselling author of the Jam Factory Girls series, A Lasting Promise is a gripping historical novel – full of powerful, heartfelt emotion, set around the Second World War.
France, 1943. As war casts its shadow over Europe, the tranquil life of twenty-three-year-old Sister Angelica's convent is disrupted by the arrival of Nazi forces. Inside the convent, the nuns offer refuge to children in need of care and protection. Despite the ever-present risks, Angelica is determined to honour her promise to keep them safe. Each day is a testament to courage and hope, even when unexpected challenges arise.
London, 1963. Now aged forty-four, Angelica has made a new life for herself in East London’s Stepney. Despite the shadows of war, she is nurturing a family of her own with hope and resilience, ready to embrace the future with open arms. Yet, as life often reminds us, the past has a way of weaving itself back into our present when we least expect it . . .
‘Wood is a born storyteller’ – Lancashire Evening Post
Critics Review
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Wood is a born storyteller
Lancashire Evening Post
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A cosy fireside read
Westmeath Examiner, on The Guernsey Girls
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I always love a Mary Wood book
Short Book & Scribes
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If you haven’t read anything by Mary yet then I highly recommend you do!
Joanna Park, JoJo's Over the Rainbow Book Blog, on The Guernsey Girls Go to War
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Details
- Author
- Mary Wood
- Narrator
- Antonia Beamish
- Duration
- 10 hours 25 minutes
- Release Date
- 19 June 2025
- ISBN
- 9781035036806
- Format
- Audiobook
- Publisher
- Pan Macmillan
- Genre
- Family saga / generational saga fiction, Historical fiction, Second World War fiction
Synopsis
Even in the darkest of times, love conquers all . . .From Mary Wood, bestselling author of the Jam Factory Girls series, A Lasting Promise is a gripping historical novel – full of powerful, heartfelt emotion, set around the Second World War.France, 1943. As war casts its shadow over Europe, the tranquil life of twenty-three-year-old Sister Angelica's convent is disrupted by the arrival of Nazi forces. Inside the convent, the nuns offer refuge to children in need of care and protection. Despite the ever-present risks, Angelica is determined to honour her promise to keep them safe. Each day is a testament to courage and hope, even when unexpected challenges arise.London, 1963. Now aged forty-four, Angelica has made a new life for herself in East London’s Stepney. Despite the shadows of war, she is nurturing a family of her own with hope and resilience, ready to embrace the future with open arms. Yet, as life often reminds us, the past has a way of weaving itself back into our present when we least expect it . . .‘Wood is a born storyteller’ – Lancashire Evening Post
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