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22 Britannia Road by Amanda Hodgkinson
3.0

Januz and Silvana both survived the War, and their small family is reunited in peaceful London far from their now-Soviet homeland of Poland. But that's just the beginning, not the 'happy ending' it is usually portrayed as at the conclusion of a tragic story. "22 Britannia Road" doesn't shy away from the realities of the six brutal years they spent apart, or the difficulties of a husband and wife readjusting to peacetime, and to each other, and learning to live with their memories. Reconciliation seems more and more unlikely as flashbacks slowly fill in the missing years, but can their son be the tie that bonds them together? Is there enough love in their tired souls to overcome the trauma of the war?