Two Lives: a 'riveting story of secrets, memories, heartbreak, and resilience'

A sweeping, absorbing novel that covers pre-war Vienna, 1930s Yorkshire, post-war New York, a retirement community in Florida and the London literary world, Two Lives is as gripping as it is beautifully written, a profound exploration of how we yearn to reconcile our pasts with our present. An image appeared in her mind, a childhood memory she hadn't known it contained: a conductor leaning over her on a train late at night, speaking to her in a language she didn't speak, one of his eyes looking at her while the other stared, unblinking, straight through her.She felt her skin prickle everywhere at once. Evelyn Lieberman has a busy social life and a close group of friends in her Florida retirement community.One of them recommends a novel by a famous British novelist, Simon Glaser, which she buys at the airport just a few weeks later.As she reads, she realises it is the story of her own childhood... Born Evelyn Reiss in Vienna in 1931, she was sent away just before the outbreak of war and