#BlogTour: My Name Is Eva by Suzanne Gold ring @SuzanneGoldring @bookouture @sarahhardy681 #MyNameIsEva

Book Synopsis:

You can pay a terrible price for keeping a promise…

Evelyn Taylor-Clarke sits in her chair at Forest Lawns Care Home in the heart of the English countryside, surrounded by residents with minds not as sharp as hers. It would be easy to dismiss Evelyn as a muddled old woman, but her lipstick is applied perfectly, and her buttons done up correctly. Because Evelyn is a woman with secrets and Evelyn remembers everything. She can never forget the promise she made to the love of her life, to discover the truth about the mission that led to his death, no matter what it cost her…

When Evelyn’s niece Pat opens an old biscuit tin to find a photo of a small girl with a red ball entitled ‘Liese, 1951’ and a passport in another name, she has some questions for her aunt. And Evelyn is transported back to a place in Germany known as ‘The Forbidden Village,’ where a woman who called herself Eva went where no one else dared, amongst shivering prisoners, to find the man who gambled with her husband’s life…

A gripping, haunting and compelling read about love, courage and betrayal set in the war-battered landscape of Germany. Fans of The Letter, The Alice Network and The Nightingale will be hooked.

My Name Is Eva is available in ebook and paperback now. You can purchase a copy of both using the link below.

My Review:

I thoroughly enjoyed this compelling dual time line novel about a part of the second world war I didn’t know much about.

Firstly I loved the brilliant main character Eva who is a clever, brave and intelligent woman. The author does a great job of letting this characters personality shine from the page. I really enjoyed the fabulous descriptions of her trying to deceive everyone at the retirement home and of her life during the war. I’d never heard of The Forbidden Village before so enjoyed learning more about it.

The bravery shown by ordinary people during the war is always incredible to read about and the fact that this book is based on the author’s family history adds weight to the story, making it more gripping to read about. I enjoyed following Eva on her high risk mission which made the book very difficult to put down.

I’ve read most of this author’s books and always find them to be fantastic, atmospheric reads. I am really looking forward to reading more from her in the future.

Huge thanks to Sarah Hardy for inviting me onto the blog tour and to Bookouture for my copy of this book via Netgalley.

About The Author:

Following an eventful career as a public relations consultant, specialising in business and travel, Suzanne Goldring turned to writing the kind of novels she likes to read, about the extraordinary lives of ordinary people. Two of her novels have been placed in the Winchester Writers’ Conference First Three Pages of a Novel competition. Her novel The Way We Lied, can be read as a serial on her blog site, suzannegoldring.wordpress.com. She is currently working on a novel about delusion,deception and death, set in Corfu.

Suzanne drew on her experiences of living in a timbered 14th century house, where she raised two daughters and a variety of livestock, to write Powerless. All her other novels are pure fiction and any resemblance to any persons living or dead is purely coincidental.