22 Britannia Road
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  • Published: 3 January 2012
  • ISBN: 9780141399676
  • Imprint: Penguin General UK
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 400
  • RRP: $39.99

22 Britannia Road

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A family survived the war - but can they survive the peace?

In war we sometimes lose ourselves . . .

It is 1946 and Silvana and eight-year-old Aurek board a ship that will take them from Poland to England. Silvana has not seen her husband Janusz in six years, but, they are assured, he has made them a home in Ipswich.

However, after living wild in the forests for years, carrying a terrible secret, all Silvana knows is that she and Aurek are survivors. Everything else is lost. While Janusz, a Polish soldier who has criss-crossed Europe during the war, hopes his family will help put his own dark past behind him.

But the war and the years apart will always haunt each of them unless they together confront what they were compelled to do to survive.
  • Published: 3 January 2012
  • ISBN: 9780141399676
  • Imprint: Penguin General UK
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 400
  • RRP: $39.99
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About the author

Amanda Hodgkinson

Amanda Hodgkinson was born in Burnham on Sea in Somerset and grew up in Essex and Suffolk. She currently lives in south west France with her husband and two daughters. This is her first novel.

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Praise for 22 Britannia Road

The characters are so convincing and the writing's so unshowily accomplished that it soon becomes something gripping. An admirable debut

Daily Mail

[A] powerful debut

Sunday Times Culture Magazine

A most accomplished first novel. Powerful story-telling and entirely convincing in its evocation of post-war England. Very good

Penelope Lively

Keep your Kleenex handy reading 22 Britannia Road

Grazia

Convincing and touchingly portrayed

Independent on Sunday

Lose yourself in this beautiful tragic tale

Stylist

A riveting historical novel, set in post-WWII England, about a Polish couple reunited after enduring - and committing - crimes of love and war.

O, the Oprah Magazine

An affecting story, extremely well told

The Times

A stark and beautiful book, alive to the compromises, deceptions and passions that traumatic situations can demand from the most circumspect of people

Marie Claire

A haunting debut that eschews sensationalism and unfurls with quiet delicacy

Easy Living

[An] ambitious debut

Financial Times

Riveting, luminous

The New York Times Book Review
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