THE LOVE WE GAVE

"An overpowering sensual love story, and an intense thriller. The pace is unforgiving, and the plot is flawless." -- READERS' FAVORITE

Part thriller, part love story it's hard to resist turning the pages."BELFAST TELEGRAPH

"Books are often described as 'page-turners' but this is very true of this one' Once started the reader will find it very hard to put down.'--- SOUTHSIDE NEWS.

Reviewed by Sarah Stuart for Readers' Favorite

*The Love We Gave by Gretta Curran Browne is an epic story of the class divide between an aristocratic family and a young woman brought up in an orphanage, and the countries of France, America, England, Vietnam, and Sweden.
It is a story of obsession - passionate love of people and power, greed and immorality, and implacable, unforgiving hatred. Paris, a beautiful city despoiled by conquering Nazis, with the sixteen-year-old daughter of a wealthy jeweller, Philippe Castineau. Jacqueline, dressed as a boy and pretending idiocy, who joins the French Resistance and kills without mercy.

Steeped in literature as one might expect of writers and publishers, invaded by the music of each decade, and gloriously multicultural, The Love We Gave is the book out of countless thousands I have read that made me, like Phil, answer when asked how I wanted my coffee, say "in peace".
Time after time, I guessed what was coming, and sometimes I was right and sometimes shockingly wrong, but I had to know. The pace is unforgiving, every character strides through the pages alive, vivid, and believable, and the plot is flawless - a superbly written whole. This is an overpowering, sensual love story, a political testimony that argues against American involvement in Vietnam, and an intense thriller. For Gretta Curran Browne's The Love We Gave, "the only word is wow".*

"Succeeds in combining a fast-paced tale involving vast sums of money, immense power, women both wounded and wounding, and a variety of credible male characters from the traumatised Vietnam veteran Jimmy Overman to the seedy publisher, James Duncan an excellent book.' - IE BOOK REVIEW

LONDON 1963 - The music of Elvis, the Beatles, and Smokey Robinson hum through the city night and day; and the life of a shy young English waitress changes spectacularly when an off-duty American soldier comes into the bistro where she works.
AMERICA 1963 - President Kennedy is in the White House and Martin Luther King is marching for Civil Rights.
In this incredible and beautiful love story, jealousy and vengeance play a cruel part - set between two wars, the horror of the past come back to casts dark shadows over the present, and uneasiness about the fearful threats of the future.

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