This
book was really an interesting read. It
was set during war time based mostly in Brussels in 1917. Germans have occupied the city and have even
taken over any homes they wish to have the occupants forced to give up bedrooms
and play host or hostess to these men.
They take anything they wish to and make the people of Brussels lives
miserable. Many are starving while the
Germans eat like kings.
Evelyn
Marche is a British nurse who has gone to live with her Mother after her
husband was killed during the war, and she works as a Red Cross nurse at the
hospital during the day while she works at her Aunt and Uncle’s café’ during
the evenings. She also works for the
Belgian resistance and while going to meet someone in secret one evening, she
rescues a pilot who is in bad shape from a down airplane. She hides him away and try’s her best to get
him out of Brussels, but many things happen to impede that trip. There are many secrets between the two and
the biggest secret well you’ll have to read the book and see.
The
book was pretty realistic there were many things about the book that I had seen
similar stories on the history channel.
The book was based on some stories the author took some liberties with
but then that is fiction often times built around something that was fact!
I
received this book through Bethany House Publishers in exchange for an honest
review.
Description of Book:
High
As the Heavens
In 1917, Evelyn
Marche is just one of many women who has been widowed by the war. A British
nurse trapped in German-occupied Brussels, she spends her days working at a
hospital and her nights as a waitress in her aunt and uncle's café. Eve also
has a carefully guarded secret keeping her in constant danger: She's a spy
working for a Belgian resistance group in league with the British Secret
Service.
When a British plane crashes in Brussels Park, Eve is the first to reach the downed plane and is shocked to discover she recognizes the badly injured pilot. British RFC Captain Simon Forrester is now a prisoner of war, and Eve knows he could be shot as a spy at any time. She risks her own life to hide him from the Germans, but as the danger mounts and the secrets between them grow, their chance of survival looks grim. And even if they do make it out alive, the truth of what lies between them may be more than any love can overcome.
When a British plane crashes in Brussels Park, Eve is the first to reach the downed plane and is shocked to discover she recognizes the badly injured pilot. British RFC Captain Simon Forrester is now a prisoner of war, and Eve knows he could be shot as a spy at any time. She risks her own life to hide him from the Germans, but as the danger mounts and the secrets between them grow, their chance of survival looks grim. And even if they do make it out alive, the truth of what lies between them may be more than any love can overcome.
