A shadow on the sun
By: Francis Cottam
Publisher: Pocket Books
Published: 2006
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 277
ISBN-13: 9780743495424
Subjects: Secrets; Fiction; Refugees
Description: Julia Smollen has escaped the horrors of a Nazi labour camp to start a new life in California with her daughter Natasha. Natasha is sendt to a good school and grows into a confident and wilful young woman. She is unaware of her true identy and background and of her father a German officer by the name of Martin Hamer, helping the then-pregnant Julia, who was pregnant with Natasha, flee the occupied homeland. Julia cannot keep the truth from her daughter forever, as a sinister figure from the past has tracked them down, with his own dark, vengeful agenda.
Notes: Previously published: London : Simon & Schuster, 2005.