The Last Telegram, Liz Trenow
The Last Telegram, Liz Trenow
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The Last Telegram

Author: Liz Trenow

Narrator: Susan Duerden

Unabridged: 11 hr 3 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 03/25/2016


Synopsis

Decades ago, as Nazi planes dominated the sky, Lily Verner made a terrible choice. She's tried to forget, but now an unexpected event pulls her back to the 1940s British countryside. She finds herself remembering the brilliant colors of the silk she helped to weave at her family's mill, the relentless pressure of the worsening war, and the kind of heartbreaking loss that stops time.

In this evocative novel of love and consequences, Lily finally confronts the disastrous decision that has haunted her all these years. The Last Telegram uncovers the surprising truth about how the stories we weave about our lives are threaded with truth, guilt, and forgiveness.

About Liz Trenow

Liz Trenow is the author of The Forgotten Seamstress and The Poppy Factory. As Liz Curry, she worked as a journalist for national and regional newspapers, BBC radio, and television news, followed by a career in PR and communications. Silk weaving has been in her family for nearly three hundred years, and she grew up in the house next to the mill in Suffolk, England, which still operates today, weaving for top-end fashion houses and royal commissions. Liz lives in Essex, England, with her husband.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Diana on July 01, 2018

4.5 Stars → An English silk factory makes for a unique setting in this lovely yet heartbreaking novel of World War II. The main character is a young British woman named Lily whose plan to attend college in Switzerland is thwarted by the onset of the war. Instead, she begrudgingly agrees to learn sil......more

Goodreads review by Huw on November 04, 2014

If you want to learn more, in a fairly lighthearted way, about the process of making silk, then you might want to read this book. Other than that, I can't find any compelling reasons to recommend this overly long, very predictable, pretty turgid and generally uninspiring romance. Set in a silk factory......more

Goodreads review by Laura on April 03, 2013

Set in England, we follow Lily, an elderly woman having just lost her husband of fifty-five years, who now dares to allow herself to reminisce to the time when she was a young woman weaving colorful silk in her father's mill while her country was at the brink of WWII. It was an emotional time of gre......more

Goodreads review by Tara on January 08, 2013

At first this book felt like a coming of age story, then it became a love story and a tale of war, prejudice, and how it can destroy people. Then it began to feel like a moral...karma gets you. Retribution. Guilt. And finally, letting go and forgiveness. I went on a rollercoaster ride of emotions wit......more

Goodreads review by Shirley on May 13, 2018

Absolutely brilliant story that I really enjoyed. Very well written and very hard to put down.......more