The Prisoner’s Wife: The BRAND NEW page-turning psychological thriller that will keep you captive for 2023

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And yet, it works, because the other prisoners when told of the secret, do the unimaginable and swear to protect her identity. Many have mothers and sisters whose faces they paint on the small, Czech woman pretending to be mute, using a pseudonym. Others know that by protecting her is an act of silent defiance against the enemy they hate. I felt for Izzy and Bill from the start. They both just wanted to be together but a war that they could not control had the potential to take everything from them. I tried to imagine what it must have been like for Izzy to live in fear of being discovered and how difficult it must have been to hide her gender in the living conditions within the camp. Bill was in constant fear for Izzy and was willing to do whatever it took to protect her. The sheer defiance of human resiliency is as potent now as ever. And so this book intersected my life at the right time. I am flabberghasted by its attention to detail, its painstaking research but also how it sits in the loving care of an author whose hands were gifted with the story and who recognizes the potency of that treasure and so delicately seeps it out to us, shares it with deft and brutal language, redresses the books that move wives to the shadows, paints the utmost portrait of a woman in a man's world. There are limited characters in this book - the whole thing is based around how Emma feels and her experiences and I love it for this. This is not a typical London gangster book, it shows how the unwilling wife along for the ride feels, and her helpless desperation. A novel set in war-torn Czechoslovakia amid the extreme privations of a prisoner of war camp, b ased on a true story of passion, heroism and a love that transcends overwhelming odds.

All I knew going in was the basic blurb: asha bandele met, fell in love with, and eventually married a man who is doing 20 to life for murder. This is the story of that relationship. It sounded interesting, though honestly I wasn't sure I'd even bother finishing the book. I had high hopes, but they weren't based on much and I knew I could easily be disappointed. But the writing is so powerful and direct, you cannot help but sink into bandele's story. It's so much more than the story of a woman who fell in love against all odds. bandele writes with such insight and honesty, and you find yourself moving through love, power, struggle, heartbreak, joy, hope, misery, sex, birth, death, discovery, and hundreds of other states. The story is relentless, and yet flows with absolute grace. And to the incredible and complex people of Brooklyn, New York, from East Flatbush to Bed-Stuy, from Fort Greene to Crown Heights: for everything we are and everything we are not, for all the swagger and strength, the inspiration and beauty and truth, for providing me with a home into which I can one day welcome my husband. As well as being a writer, Maggie is an advisory fellow for the Royal Literary Fund and also an Associate Professor at Middlesex University, London, England, Maggie Brookes is a British ex-journalist and BBC television producer turned poet and novelist. You will be spellbound by this stellar debut. Susan Meissner, Bestselling author of The Last Year of the War

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A creepy, dark and atmospheric read that kept me on the edge of my seat with my heart pounding. Twisty, fast paced… I loved it’ NetGalley Reviewer, ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

We were talking as though we believed our talking could change things, restore balance, make somebody free. It was unifying talk. And Rashid knew it, we all knew it. Rashid knew, as we knew, that he had become our friend, a member of our little clique, and this is what made it so difficult finally, when we would, at the end of a program, walk out of the prison without him. It seemed that if we meant anything we said in those long political discussions, there would just be no way we could have gone, leaving him behind then. Leaving him behind now. Rashid is so pleased with himself as he tells me this story five years after our first encounter. After all, in the moment of his confession, we are in a visiting room, and I lie, as fitted as possible, in the crook of his arms. And in that moment, despite every hurting and hell I have had to endure to love this man, there is no other place that I would rather be.After we were in love, Rashid would tell me that it was me, my fault, that I was hard to approach. He told me that while I was an animated and exciting performer, offstage I was quiet, withdrawn, cool and distant. So beautifully written, so beautifully told and so eye opening about horrors that I already knew existed and happened, but needed reminding of again. A terrible part of our history, of the worlds history, that I hope we never forget and more importantly, never, ever, let happen again.