A review by nursenell
The Secret Letter by Debbie Rix

5.0

This was an excellent book about two families, one in Britain, one in Germany. Imogen in Britain is separated from her parents as an evacuee, and Magda, in Germany is forced to be in a young Nazi orgnization despite not wanting to be. Imogene goes on to become a Wren, and Magda becomes part of the Resistance in Germany. Their lives unknowingly intersect through Magda's brother, a scholar caught in England when war breaks out, who works on the side of the Allies, and a RAF pilot who is shot down and given refuge by Magda and her parents. They of course don't know their lives are intertwined until after the war.


I especially liked the character of Magda, who took great risks not ony in the Resistance, although her involvement was minimal and short lived, but more so in her rescuing and hiding two different RAF pilots, at different times, in the attic of her parents' home.