and a former marketing executive for L’Oréal. Her novels have been international bestsellers and are translated into twenty-one different languages and published all around the world. When she’s not writing, she loves collecting vintage fashion, practicing the art of fashion illustration, and traveling the world. Natasha lives with her husband and three children in Perth, Western Australia.
Lester's newest novel is The Mademoiselle Alliance.
At Lit Hub the author tagged eight books "which are set in different theaters of the Second World War, from France to Hong Kong, Britain, Japan, Australia and Germany." One title on the list:
Kate Atkinson, A God in RuinsRead about another book on the list.
This is another book with a twist that cut me to the core. It’s a companion novel to Atkinson’s Life After Life in that it features the same English family, but it isn’t necessary to have read that one first. In this novel, Teddy is a WWII British bomber pilot and thus he and his fellow pilots have the shortest lives of almost anyone serving in the war.
All of them are desperate to stay alive until they reach the required number of flights to end their tour of duty. But Teddy, although terrified of dying, keeps going back for more, serving three tours by war’s end.
It’s Atkinson’s descriptions of life as a bomber pilot and her rumination on life, death and storytelling that make this one of the best books in the genre.
A God in Ruins is among Tessa Arlen’s five top historical novels, ELLE UK's fifteen of the best books of 2015, Time magazine's top ten fiction books of 2015, and Tracy Chevalier's six best books.
--Marshal Zeringue
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