The Berlin Girl

  I thank yet again my wonderful editor at Avon – Molly Walker-Sharp – always there with a positive comment and a chirpy email, ensuring a much easier journey for me, plus the entire team at Avon and HarperCollins worldwide. Without them, my books wouldn’t be anything, anywhere. I’m still terrible at IT, so please grant me ongoing forgiveness.

  Thanks also to my lovely agent, Broo Doherty at DHH Literary Agency – supportive, tenacious and very ready to absorb the sometimes dour bleatings of a sometimes wobbly writer. You must have been an agony aunt in a former life.

  As ever, I couldn’t have done this without my own vital sustenance of coffee; the chaps at Coffee #1 in Stroud and their ability to make mine ‘just so’, along with their chat and humour, and the new Felt Café in Brimscombe with its wonderful writers’ vibe.

  And readers: where would we be without you? More than ever, in these strange times, I have been reliant on books to take me to worlds away from my own, only too glad to be among the many still buying, absorbing and inhaling the language of others. Thank you for reading my own humble scratchings.

  Keep Reading …

  Germany, 1944. Anke Hoff is assigned as midwife to one of Hitler’s inner circle. If she refuses, her family will die.

  For readers of The Tattooist of Auschwitz comes a gritty tale of courage, betrayal and love in the most unlikely of places.

  UK readers click here.

  US readers click here.

  The world is at war, and Stella Jilani is leading a double life.

  Set between German-occupied 1940s Venice and modern-day London, this is a fascinating tale of the bravery of everyday women in the darkest corners of WWII.

  UK readers click here.

  US readers click here.

  About the Author

  Mandy Robotham saw herself as an aspiring author since the age of nine, but was waylaid by journalism and later enticed by birth. She’s now a former midwife, who writes about birth, death, love and anything else in between. She graduated with an MA in Creative Writing from Oxford Brookes University. This is her third novel – her previous two have both been Globe and Mail and USA Today bestsellers.

  By the same author:

  A Woman of War (published as The German Midwife in North America, Australia and New Zealand)

  The Secret Messenger

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