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    Trudy's Promise

    By Marcia Preston

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    An act of desperation divides a mother and her child. Only an act of faith can reunite them.

    Trudy Hulst has no idea if her husband survived his attempted escape past the newly constructed Berlin Wall. But she knows too well the consequences of his actions. Now branded the wife of a defector, she faces a life in prison. With no real choice, she is forced to follow, praying she can find a way to claim their child once she's in West Berlin.

    Trudy survives a harrowing break for freedom only to learn her husband was shot during his escape. Terribly alone, she wanders the wall like a ghost, living for brief glimpses of her son, now out of reach behind barbed wire and armed soldiers. Desperate to regain her child, Trudy begins a journey that leads her to America,where she continues an odyssey of hope to find her son.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHarlequin MIRA
    Release dateAug 15, 2012
    ISBN9781459248243
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    Marcia Preston

    Marcia Preston grew up on a wheat farm in central Oklahoma, and her first two books were mysteries in an Oklahoma setting. She was awarded the 2004 Mary Higgins Clark Award for suspense fiction, and the 2004 Oklahoma Book Award. Her most recent books are general fiction. Before writing novels full time, Marcia taught high school English and was a freelance writer for a long list of national magazines. She also published and edited a specialty magazine for writers.

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    • 3/5
      Historical fictions can be harder reads but with the mix of fiction and our past this book was well written. It had slow parts throughout but as a mother it really made me think what I would do.
    • 4/5
      A gripping, sobering, and thought-provoking tale of friendship, loyalty, and politics, set in the aftermath of the erection of the Berlin Wall in 1962. When Rolf is identified as a member of the underground, responsible for 23 successful escapes to West Berlin, he himself is forced to flee to the West. His defection puts his wife Trudy under suspicion, however. Wolfgang is a childhood friend of Rolf's, with diametrically opposed political views, and a senior officer with the Volkspolizei. When he realises Trudy is in danger, Wolfgang risks his own career to facilitate her escape. However, she is forced to leave her young son Stefan behind, and swears to come back for him. The rest of the book tells about her attempts to do just that.At the start of the novel, Trudy has little interest in politics, and despite her husband's 'hero' status, sees both Rolf and Wolfgang as being loyal to abstract principles that only serve to ruin people's lives. She's not blind to the irony that her husband has been a hero to total stangers, and yet simultaneously unable to protect his own family. Trudy's views evolve, however, over the course of the story, and this raised interesting questions for me about the extent to which we could and should be willing to make sacrifices for such principles.
    • 4/5
      This is a book with two titles as noted above. It is the first book that I have read about the time period when the wall went up and having lived in a town that must have been cut apart by the wall, and having actually seen the wall it meant a lot to me. I did enjoy the book.In summary - Trudy's husband Rolf is forced to flee to the West when it is discovered that he has been helping people escape to the West. Trudy, as the wife of a defector is brought in for questioning and in consequence she knows that she now faces possible imprisonment. It is a difficult decision but she leaves her small son with her mother in law and escapes to the West not knowing what has happened to her husband. When she arrives in the West Trudy learns the fate of her husband and from then on her goal is to find a way to be reunited with her son, a journey that takes her to America and back. Preston has included JFK"S visit to Berlin and his subsequent assassination in the story. I found the chain of events leading to her visit to America slightly unbelievable but I did become engrossed in her struggle to be reunited with her son. There are good descriptions of life in East and West Germany in the book, and strong characters in Trudy, her husband Rolf, and Rolf's childhood friend Wolfgang, a member of the border police, who in the end was prepared to put his career at risk to help Trudy. And in the end the question is - How far would you be prepared to go to get your child back?
    • 4/5
      Trudy is left alone to raise her son when her husband flees East Berlin to the safety of West Berlin. With the help of her mother-n-law she tries to go on with her life the best she can.When she learns she faces prison because she is the wife of a defector, she knows her only choice is to flee East Berlin. She is told she must leave her young son behind because it is too dangerous to take him with her. She vows to find a way to be reunited with him.After spending hours crawling through dark tunnels underground she makes it to freedom in West Berlin. Shortly after arriving she learns that her husband died trying to make it across. After seeing President Kennedy and hearing his speech he gives in West Berlin, she travels to the United States in hope of finding someone who can help her in getting her son to her. Things don't work out as hoped for and she is forced to return to Berlin. Can she ever be reunited with her son?I finished the book in just one day. Fast moving plot. The author does a great job with putting the reader right there in the story. The story leaves the reader with the question of "Just how far would you be willing to go to be reunited with a loved one?".