The Sugar Men, Ray Kingfisher
The Sugar Men, Ray Kingfisher
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The Sugar Men

Author: Ray Kingfisher

Narrator: Jane Oppenheimer

Unabridged: 8 hr 54 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 11/20/2018


Synopsis

Sixty-four years ago, Susannah Morgan managed to flee the horrors of the Holocaust. But the memories of that childhood ordeal have proven impossible to sweep away.For most of her new life spent settled in sleepy North Carolina, the flashbacks have been a lonely obsession—one she has hidden from her family, and about which her heart is torn. Because for all the pain and the cruelty of those terrible years, she harbours sweet memories too, of unexpected friends who risked their own lives in order to save hers. As Susannah’s time on earth draws to a close, her innermost thoughts of those long-gone days become questions—ones that demand answers.Against the wishes of her children, Susannah returns to Germany and the scene of unspeakable crimes. There she will come face to face with the Holocaust’s terrible, wretched legacy, and will finally make peace with the ghosts of her past.Revised edition: This edition of The Sugar Men includes editorial revisions.

About Ray Kingfisher

Ray Kingfisher was born and bred in the Black Country in the UK. He wrote a singularly awful novel in the early 1990s, and so concentrated on his IT/engineering career (and renovating a house) for the next fifteen years. In 2009, the urge to write broke through again, and this time he decided to learn how to do it properly. Ray now writes in a few different genres, through indecision and belligerence as much as through choice. To find out more about Ray and his stories, please visit his website at www.raykingfisher.com.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Karyn

"The Sugar Men" had a very interesting premise, but the delivery was awkward and unbelievable. Main character Susanna went through a horrific experience, kept in a German WW 2 concentration camp. I don't believe that 60 some years later her grown children are okay with her gallivanting across the oc......more

Goodreads review by G.J.

I don't think it can be easy to write a fictional book about the incredibly difficult period of spending the war years " on the run" as a Jewish family ending in years as a prisoner of Bergen -Belsen concentration camp, but this book manages to do it well.There were one or two things which I found a......more

9/26/16 Yet another read I wanted to love but didn't. The time Susannah spent in a concentration camp was described in vivid, horrific detail, so much so that it didn't feel like fiction; however, the rest of the story wasn't nearly as engaging. The flashbacks were what I wanted to read about the mo......more

Goodreads review by linda

I knew this book was a flashback fictional memoir. The subtitle, Holocaust Echoes, did not prepare me for the brutality of suzannah’s last days in Bergen Belsen. True, the whole book is disquieting but the end left me sobbing. It will grab you and you can’t erase what it does to your heart and mind.......more