A review by stevienlcf
22 Britannia Road by Amanda Hodgkinson

4.0

Amanda Hodgkinson presents an accomplished first novel. Polish newlyweds Silvana and Janusz are separated for six years during World War II, but are reunited in England when Janusz locates Silvana and their young son, Aurek, in a refugee camp. The novel deftly moves between the present and flashbacks from the couple's divergent experiences during the war -- experiences which inform their struggles to reunite their family. The reader learns, for example, how Silvana and Aurek survived the war hidden in the Polish forest, skinning rabbits and fending off enemy soldiers, and the author exquisitely depicts the bond between mother and child.