{"product_id":"9781529085884","title":"Far From Home","description":"\u003cp\u003e Author(s): Steel, Danielle \u003cbr\u003e Binding: Paperback, \u003cbr\u003e Date of Publication: 04\/12\/2025,\u003cbr\u003e Pagination: 336 pages,\u003cbr\u003e ISBN13\\EAN\\SKU: 9781529085884,\u003cbr\u003e Description: \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFar from Home is a gripping and heartbreaking wartime tale about the love between a mother and daughter, from billion-copy bestselling author Danielle Steel.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn July 1944, at the height of the German occupation, Arielle von Auspeck arrives at the glamorous Ritz hotel in Paris excited to be reunited with her husband, Gregor, a retired colonel in the army who is soon to join her from Germany.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHer world falls apart when she receives word that Gregor was part of Operation Valkyrie, a failed attempt to assassinate Hitler in Poland, and has been shot as a traitor. Arielle, who has both French and German parentage, is taken from Paris under cover of darkness for her own safety.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eUnable to contact her children in Germany, Arielle assumes a new identity and goes into hiding in a small village in Normandy. Taking a job locally, she befriends a man whose Jewish wife and daughter have been deported. As the war rages on and the Allies storm the nearby beaches, Arielle discovers a hidden world of people like her, who are fiercely opposed to the occupying forces and are doing all they can to stop them. They are fighting for a time when they can look for their families and return home.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDanielle Steel captures the devastation of the Second World War with a sweeping story of courage and survival against impossible odds.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Griffin Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57333718483317,"sku":"9781529085884","price":8.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0379\/1365\/7388\/files\/9781529085884.jpg?v=1782936563","url":"https:\/\/www.griffinbooksonline.co.uk\/products\/9781529085884","provider":"Griffin Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}