The Storyteller of Casablanca, Fiona Valpy
The Storyteller of Casablanca, Fiona Valpy
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The Storyteller of Casablanca

Author: Fiona Valpy

Narrator: Elizabeth Knowelden

Unabridged: 9 hr 20 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 09/21/2021

Synopsis

In this evocative tale from the bestselling author of The Dressmaker’s Gift, a strange new city offers a young girl hope. Can it also offer a lost soul a second chance?Morocco, 1941. With France having fallen to Nazi occupation, twelve-year-old Josie has fled with her family to Casablanca, where they await safe passage to America. Life here is as intense as the sun, every sight, smell and sound overwhelming to the senses in a city filled with extraordinary characters. It’s a world away from the trouble back home—and Josie loves it.Seventy years later, another new arrival in the intoxicating port city, Zoe, is struggling—with her marriage, her baby daughter and her new life as an expat in an unfamiliar place. But when she discovers a small wooden box and a diary from the 1940s beneath the floorboards of her daughter’s bedroom, Zoe enters the inner world of young Josie, who once looked out on the same view of the Atlantic Ocean, but who knew a very different Casablanca.It’s not long before Zoe begins to see her adopted city through Josie’s eyes. But can a new perspective help her turn tragedy into hope, and find the comfort she needs to heal her broken heart?

About Fiona Valpy

Fiona spent seven years living in France, having moved there from the UK in 2007, before returning to live in Scotland. Her love for both of these countries, their people and their histories, has found its way into the books she’s written.She draws inspiration from the stories of strong women, especially during the years of the Second Word War, and her meticulous historical research enriches her writing with an evocative sense of time and place.An acclaimed Number 1 bestselling author, Fiona Valpy’s books have been translated into more than a dozen languages worldwide.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Ceecee

4.5 stars rounded up. When Zoe’s husband Tom gets a five year posting to Casablanca she views this as a fresh start for their strained and distant relationship. She makes a chance find beneath the floorboards of their accommodation of a little box and a leather bound notebook that belongs to twelve......more

Goodreads review by Elisabeth

This is the type of historical fiction I love to read. In 2010, Zoe moves to Casablanca with her family for her husband’s new job. Their marriage is on the rocks and Zoe is trying to adjust to her new life. In the house she’s living at, she finds a box of hidden mementos from the past and specifical......more

Goodreads review by Marilyn (having surgery- trying to catch up)

4.5 stars rounded up. Fiona Valpy has succeeded again in writing another brilliant historical fiction novel. The Storyteller of Casablanca was heartbreaking and captivating. It was written in a dual time period and the chapters alternated accordingly. Both of the female protagonists were admirable a......more

Goodreads review by Karren

Josie Duval is a twelve year old Jewish girl living in Casablanca in 1941, Zoe Harris is staying in the same house in 2010 and their story has a dual timeline. The two main characters are bound together when Zoe finds Josie’s diary, a trinket box, keepsakes, under the floor boards in one of the bedr......more

Goodreads review by Romina

3.5 stars The story was nice, but it didn't caught me. I was hoping to not being able to let go but instead I didn't feel the wanting to pick it up. Going closer to the end it gets more interesting but I guessed half of it and the other half wasn't all that surprising. It was a good historical fiction......more

Quotes

“A novel that will whisk you to another time and place, The Storyteller of Casablanca is a tender tale of hope, resilience, and new beginnings.” —Imogen Clark, bestselling author of Postcards From a Stranger“Fiona Valpy has an exquisite talent for creating characters so rounded and delightful that they almost feel like family, and this makes what happens to them feel very personal.” —Louise Douglas, bestselling author of The House by the Sea

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