The Winter Rose, Melanie Dobson
The Winter Rose, Melanie Dobson
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The Winter Rose

Author: Melanie Dobson

Narrator: Nancy Peterson

Unabridged: 10 hr 19 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 01/11/2022


Synopsis

In this gripping WWII time-slip novel from the author whose books have been called “propulsive” and a “must-read” (Publishers Weekly), Grace Tonquin is an American Quaker who works tirelessly in Vichy France to rescue Jewish children from the Nazis. After crossing the treacherous Pyrénées, Grace returns home to Oregon with a brother and sister whose parents were lost during the war. Though Grace and her husband love Élias and Marguerite as their own, echoes of Grace’s past and trauma from the Holocaust tear the Tonquin family apart.

More than fifty years after they disappear, Addie Hoult arrives at Tonquin Lake, hoping to find the Tonquin family. For Addie, the mystery is a matter of life and death for her beloved mentor Charlie, who is battling a genetic disease. Though Charlie refuses to discuss his ties to the elusive Tonquins, finding them is the only way to save his life and mend the wounds from his broken past.

About Melanie Dobson

Melanie Dobson is the award-winning author of sixteen historical romance, suspense, and time-slip novels including Chateau of Secrets and Shadows of Ladenbrooke Manor. Three of her novels have won Carol Awards, and Love Finds You in Liberty, Indiana won Best Novel of Indiana in 2010. She loves exploring old cemeteries and ghost towns, hiking in the mountains, and playing board games with her family. She lives with her husband and two daughters near Portland, Oregon.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Marilyn (not getting notifications) on January 29, 2022

4.5 strong stars for this moving World War II historical fiction novel. The Winter Rose was the second novel I have had the pleasure of reading by Melanie Dobson. I was quite taken by her novel, Memories of Glass, so when I saw that she had written a new novel I was excited to read it. The Winter Ro......more

Goodreads review by Sarah on April 14, 2022

A thoughtful look at the secrets we keep, why we keep them – and the cost and reward of revelation. Melanie Dobson‘s The Winter Rose plumbs the depths of an intriguing group of characters, more interconnected than they know, as past and present collide. Set among two ranges of mountains and two eras......more

Goodreads review by Karren on December 08, 2021

Grace Tonquin is the daughter of a famous movie star, and she was raised by her Quaker grandparents on their dairy farm in Oregon. Addie travels to Spain and then to France, where she’s a member of Les Secours Quaker movement, they rescue Jewish children and take them to safety in Spain. They have t......more

Goodreads review by Kav on January 24, 2022

I do so love an artfully crafted dual timeline story and Melanie Dobson has a special knack for creating the impossible to put down kind. I particularly love how well this genre suits WWII stories. There's something so hopeful that comes from the partial redemption of such evil -- even if it is deca......more

Goodreads review by Christy on September 27, 2022

3.5 stars The Winter Rose followed two different storylines from two different time periods, though with time, things start to fall into place and the storylines mend together. Grace is in France in the 1940's helping Jewish children escape the Nazi's. Addie has traveled from Tennessee to Oregon in t......more