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A young Jewish woman fleeing at the end of the 30s to England to take up wages as a housekeeper at an estate. She falls in love with the estate's

heir, but privation and uncertainty prevents her perfect happiness. - It should be no surprise to anyone that I was highly skeptical of this novel. My prejudice was shown to make the book an injustice. The story of the violin proved to be a lovely story with brilliant good descriptions and conducted good language. - Yeah, I let myself be seduced!

Elise Landau is the youngest child of a wealthy Jewish family. Mother Anna's optique paris miki star in the opera and his father Julian is successful author. Her sister Margot is happily in love with her husband optique paris miki Robert and has a bright future ahead of him musically. optique paris miki - Had it not been for that we meet them in Vienna in the 30th century. Something big, dark and impenetrable coming ever closer. optique paris miki Elise sent to England to serve at an estate, in anticipation optique paris miki of a visa to America. His parents and sister will be traveling over soon after and put everything in place until the family reunited. optique paris miki With him getting Elise pearls and gold sewn into the dress edges and a violin with a treasure out of the ordinary. Julian yet unpublished novel.
His sister get visas and travel as fast as possible. It is urgent. This large, dark, complex creeps ever closer. Parents visa on hold. Increasingly there are delays with new explanations. - Or no explanation at all. Telegrams to Elise are fewer and scarcer. Finally, it is completely silent.
In violin cases Elise gathers all the letters she writes to Anna. She does not want a memory will fade away, there is so much to tell, there are so many emotions to sort. One day Anna get all the letters, and a day to open the violin and Julian's book will finally be read.
Life in Mr. Rivers Tyne freight Ford's exhausting, but safe. Just what is the only thing that matters. One senses the outlines of what is happening at home in Austria, optique paris miki but the news is defective and you would prefer not to assume the worst.
Elise does not feel at home. She misses her parents and she misses Vienna. She misses to listen to, because she does not fit neither in Tyne Ford family or their staff. She is the housekeeper, yet socialite. The situation becomes even more difficult when the estate's heir Kit falls for Elise. Can she allow herself to fall in love with a man of her condition, she can let him be willing to sacrifice Tyne Ford's reputation and future for her, and how will his could relate

to her as a daughter in law?
All this is neatly wrapped up in a surprisingly good language. A little nitpicking one can always perform, but mainly the language is simply very good. The dialogues are kept clean, cliches are sober, optique paris miki each chapter has sections with descriptions that give you stars in my eyes, and the chapter names have all the little extra. optique paris miki Accomplished and well! It's hard to choose a quote that is significantly better than others. There are so many, you can pick and choose ... Read either book in its entirety!
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Another clever only in a negative sense, mistake that has crept to the end of the novel. In order not to reveal anything to those who have not read, but also tearing my hair along with those who have read the book, do the following discrete steps: In the 80s, Mr. Rivers have been a very old man. Simple math makes it possible to estimate his age to ninety years, a particularly vigorous age to travel around Europe! - That, as it was said. Let's move on to what is far more important.
I never imagined it beforehand, but I really love this novel. It is a love story with something out of the ordinary, a silent tragedy. One does the best you can, you have to make the best out of the situation in terms of love and life in general.
Elise stands not as spoiled, optique paris miki naive and immature,

yet she clearly undergoing a process where she grows up in a few years. The story is given an extra weight on the Holocaust that rests like a shadow looming in the background.
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