What is Susan Meissner reading?

Featured at Writers Read: Susan Meissner, author of A Bridge Across the Ocean.

Her entry begins:

I’m a big fan of historical fiction so most of the books on my bedside table of late have been insightful, impacting, and sometimes heart-tugging excursions to the past, including the one I’m reading right now, which is Affiity Konar’s Mischling. It’s a story of Polish twins taken from their mother during Hitler’s regime along with dozens upon dozens other sets of twins and triplets to be experimented upon by Dr. Josef Mengele. That...[read on]

About A Bridge Across the Ocean, from the publisher:

Wartime intrigue spans the lives of three women—past and present—in the latest novel from the acclaimed author of Secrets of a Charmed Life.

February, 1946. World War Two is over, but the recovery from the most intimate of its horrors has only just begun for Annaliese Lange, a German ballerina desperate to escape her past, and Simone Deveraux, the wronged daughter of a French Résistance spy.

Now the two women are joining hundreds of other European war brides aboard the renowned RMS Queen Mary to cross the Atlantic and be reunited with their American husbands. Their new lives in the United States brightly beckon until their tightly-held secrets are laid bare in their shared stateroom. When the voyage ends at New York Harbor, only one of them will disembark…

Present day. Facing a crossroads in her own life, Brette Caslake visits the famously haunted Queen Mary at the request of an old friend. What she finds will set her on a course to solve a seventy-year-old tragedy that will draw her into the heartaches and triumphs of the courageous war brides—and will ultimately lead her to reconsider what she has to sacrifice to achieve her own deepest longings.

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