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Not for Your Eyes

Name: Not for Your Eyes
Brand: She Writes Press
Price: 38.75 AUD
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A Holocaust Love Story in Letters

By: Margot Kelman

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Paperback | 2 March 2027

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Paperback

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21.59 x 13.97

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Available: 2nd March 2027

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For fans of When Time Stopped and The Tattooist of Auschwitz comes a World War II love story drawn from real letters, where devotion endures across an ocean and through war and unimaginable loss.

It began with a chance meeting and survived a world at war.

Marianne, a seventeen-year-old Jewish refugee who escaped Nazi Germany on the Kindertransport, is living in a London hostel when she meets Gerson, a twenty-one-year-old American soldier stationed in England. Their first encounter, at a Chanukah celebration meant for a handful of servicemen, sparks a romance neither could have imagined. As the war rages on, their relationship unfolds through stolen visits and heartfelt letters, each one a lifeline carefully saved in its original envelope.

When the war ends, Gerson returns to the United States while Marianne remains in a battered London, uncertain of her future, her family’s fate, or whether love alone can bridge an ocean. With no phone calls and no guarantees, they rely solely on letters filled with longing, courage, faith, and devotion—and through loss, displacement, and relentless uncertainty, their bond deepens.

Constructed from more than 360 letters that lay hidden in an attic for decades before being discovered by Gerson and Marianne’s daughter, Not for Your Eyes is a moving testament to resilience, optimism, and the enduring power of love, proof that even after unimaginable darkness, hope can still find its way home.

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