Synopses & Reviews
Bright lights, dark secrets, and first love all come about in the second book in this lush series
It's 1924. Leaving their beloved Beech Grove Manor to go to London for the season, Poppy and Daisy Derrington know that they must shine as debutantes. Since a girl cannot inherit her father's estate, the sisters have to marry well or face being left penniless. But it's not money or marriage that interests them, it's music, cinema, literature, fashion, parties, love—everything that is shiny and new. Trapped by the dusty traditions of their class, Daisy and Poppy must choose between family duty and the bright lights of the roaring twenties.
Synopsis
Two weeks after the fall of the Berlin Wall, 16-year-old New Yorker Molly Lenzfeld, the daughter of a German-Jewish mother who fled the Nazis in 1938, is off to her mother’s birth house in East Berlin. On the subway trip, wallflower Molly meets 19-year-old East German wildflower Mick Maier. It’s love at first sight and a journey into an unknown land, into the labyrinth of Berlin’s underground world, a fertile terrain where they discover each other, the absurdities of the divided city, and the wonder of love.
About the Author
Holly-Jane Rahlens is the creator of a highly praised one-woman show and has worked in radio, television, and film. Her first novel for teens, Prince William, Maximilian Minsky and Me, was awarded The German Children’s Literature Award for the best young adult novel published in Germany. She lives in Berlin.