The Color of Secrets, Lindsay Jayne Ashford
The Color of Secrets, Lindsay Jayne Ashford
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The Color of Secrets

Author: Lindsay Jayne Ashford

Narrator: Heather Wilds

Unabridged: 10 hr 31 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download (DRM Protected)

Published: 04/14/2015

Synopsis

Everyone has secrets, but some can change your life forever…In the midst of the Second World War, Eva receives the devastating news that her husband is missing and presumed dead. Neither wife nor widow, she lives in a numb state of limbo until, in the heat of an English summer, she meets Bill, a black American GI. Despite their vastly different backgrounds, neither can deny the love that overcomes them in the frantic weeks that follow, when every day could be their last.After Eva discovers she’s pregnant, Bill is shipped off to join the D-day fight, leaving her alone in a bigoted world. As her mixed-race daughter, Louisa, grows up, how far will Eva go to keep her safe and bury the past? And how far will Louisa go to uncover the truth?Revised edition: Previously published as With Love and Crocodiles: The Untold Story of a War Bride, this edition of The Color of Secrets includes editorial revisions.

About Lindsay Jayne Ashford

Lindsay Ashford grew up in Wolverhampton, United Kingdom. She was the first woman to graduate from Queens’ College, Cambridge, in its 550-year history. After earning her degree in criminology, Ashford worked as a reporter for the BBC and a freelance journalist for a number of national magazines and newspapers. She has four children and currently lives in a house overlooking the sea on the west coast of Wales.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Erika on June 22, 2015

I really wanted to like this book. The writing was not terrible and the premise was a bit different than your typical historical fiction set in the 1940s. I will try to avoid spoilers, but I found that the author had a tendency to write out characters without really explaining what happened, and kil......more

Goodreads review by Floripiquita on January 26, 2019

2,5 La verdad es que no sé muy bien qué puntuación darle, pues me ha costado muchísimo acabarlo. No es que sea malo, es que me ha parecido un libro fallido. Cuenta con una premisa argumental muy interesante (la relación entre una joven inglesa y un soldado americano de color a finales de la II Guerr......more

Goodreads review by Tara on July 23, 2015

The premise of this story fascinated me. A woman in WWII England, whose husband has been missing, possibly dead for two years, falls for a black American soldier. A baby results. How does this affect the future generations? What happens is/when her husband shows up? I love a good scandal, especially......more

Goodreads review by Juli on June 10, 2015

I am not going to lie; I didn't finish the book. I got to 60% of the book before I decided that I had already given it too many chances, and I really didn't care how it was going to end. The idea was appealing to me - the union of two people with very different background in Britain during the 2nd W......more

Goodreads review by Ezi on May 01, 2016

I can't say that I enjoyed this story. I was expecting an interracial romance and I got yet another story where the white woman disavowed the black man in the face of tragedy and hardship. So I was disappointed......more

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