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The Metal Heart

A Novel of Love and Valor in World War II

by Caroline Lea
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In the Orkney Isles during WWII, a Scottish woman finds love with an Italian prisoner of war in this "exquisitely researched, beautifully told" novel (Mary Beth Keane, author of Ask Again, Yes).
In the wake of the Allies' victory in North Africa, 1,000 Italian soldiers have been sent to a remote island off the Scottish coast to wait out the war. Their arrival has divided the island's community. Nerves frayed from the constant threat of invasion, many locals fear the enemy prisoners.
But to orphaned sisters Dorothy and Constance, these see sick, wounded men are in need of care. As they volunteer to nurse them, Dorothy finds herself immediately drawn to Cesare, a young man unaccustomed to the bracing Orkney winter, and broken by the horrors of battle.
As the war drags on, tensions between the islanders and the outsiders deepen, and Dorothy's connection to Cesare threatens her community and family bonds. Now she and her sister are each forced to weigh duty against desire . . .

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    April 16, 2024

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      • ISBN: 9780063075481

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      • ISBN: 9780063075481
      • File size: 3371 KB

  • Languages

    • English

  • Reviews

    • Booklist

      May 15, 2021
      Growing up on Scotland's Orkney Islands, identical twins Constance and Dorothy Reid are inseparable, bound by their love of the sea. Haunted by a traumatic past and their parents' tragic disappearance, at age 23 in the fall of 1941 Con and Dot make a new life on the nearby island of Selkie Holm despite tales of a curse and creatures swimming in its waters. As WWII seeps into their lives, the twins soon find themselves neighbors to an encampment of Italian war prisoners charged with building barricades between the islands. Dot recklessly saves Cesare, a prisoner that has fallen into the frigid waters, and the two form an immediate connection, risking everything to steal away secret moments. Dot and Cesare's love is tested by illness, death, and war, but theirs isn't the only love story Lea tells. The twins' powerful bond is unbreakable until one must make the ultimate choice. Lea (Glass Woman, 2019) brings to life a story inspired by real lives and events of WWII in this captivating, harrowing tale of wartime survival and sacrifice.

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