Season of Leaves by Catherine Law - first published 2008
This novel is set partly in Devon/Cornwall and partly in Prague. During World War 2, while working as a Land Girl on a Cornish farm, Rose Pepper meets and falls in love with a Czech soldier, Krystof. However while she is still in shock from the death of her parents in a bombing raid in Plymouth, she is tricked into marrying her previous boyfriend, who turns out to be cold and controlling. After the war she and Krystof flee to his home in Prague but their problems aren't over, as the Communists are taking over the country. 7/10
30th April 2010
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