Beyond the Bright Sea
11 hrs. 3 min.
Language
Russian
Author
Laura Spence-Ash
Author
Laura Spence-Ash
Narrator
Maria Orlova
Narrator
Maria Orlova
Description
A delightful romance full of love, losses, and new beginnings.
When German bombs begin falling on London in 1940, Millie and Reginald Thompson make a difficult decision: to send their eleven-year-old daughter, Beatrice, to evacuation across the ocean. In safe America, she will have to live in a stranger’s family until the war ends. Scared, angry at her parents, lonely and lost, Bea arrives in a country so different from the grim wartime London. Mr. and Mrs. Gee, along with their sons William and Gerald, warmly welcome the English girl, and soon she becomes truly “one of them” in this new, cozy world—part of a happy family. The shadowy London and the endlessly tired parents begin to feel to Bea like some forgotten dream. When, after the war ends, the girl returns to England, the memory of her American family remains forever in Bea’s heart—and it is these recollections that guide her through life.
In this novel, as in Bea’s heart, there’s room for a little of everything—two such different, yet so dear families that lived through World War II on opposite sides of the Atlantic Ocean: sunshine and fog, sharp joy and aching pain, forgiveness and understanding, losses and love.
Laura Spencer-Ash’s debut novel received high praise from critics and industry colleagues, including Meg Wolitzer, Ann Napolitano, Clare Messud, and others.
The book was selected as a GMA Buzz Pick and Indie Next Pick for April 2023, and received a starred review from Publishers Weekly.
The novel “And Then Comes the Sea” made the Goodreads Top Lists for 2023.
Press on the novel:
“Laura Spencer-Ash’s story is rooted in the complicated years of World War II, but it is also a timeless tale of family, closeness, love, and the attachments we form throughout our lives—the dreams that are born, die, and are reborn,” — The New York Times.
“A stunning novel with wonderful, very vivid characters—elegiac and at the same time tense—about family, loss, and the complexities of relationships between loved ones,” — Shelf Awareness.
When German bombs begin falling on London in 1940, Millie and Reginald Thompson make a difficult decision: to send their eleven-year-old daughter, Beatrice, to evacuation across the ocean. In safe America, she will have to live in a stranger’s family until the war ends. Scared, angry at her parents, lonely and lost, Bea arrives in a country so different from the grim wartime London. Mr. and Mrs. Gee, along with their sons William and Gerald, warmly welcome the English girl, and soon she becomes truly “one of them” in this new, cozy world—part of a happy family. The shadowy London and the endlessly tired parents begin to feel to Bea like some forgotten dream. When, after the war ends, the girl returns to England, the memory of her American family remains forever in Bea’s heart—and it is these recollections that guide her through life.
In this novel, as in Bea’s heart, there’s room for a little of everything—two such different, yet so dear families that lived through World War II on opposite sides of the Atlantic Ocean: sunshine and fog, sharp joy and aching pain, forgiveness and understanding, losses and love.
Laura Spencer-Ash’s debut novel received high praise from critics and industry colleagues, including Meg Wolitzer, Ann Napolitano, Clare Messud, and others.
The book was selected as a GMA Buzz Pick and Indie Next Pick for April 2023, and received a starred review from Publishers Weekly.
The novel “And Then Comes the Sea” made the Goodreads Top Lists for 2023.
Press on the novel:
“Laura Spencer-Ash’s story is rooted in the complicated years of World War II, but it is also a timeless tale of family, closeness, love, and the attachments we form throughout our lives—the dreams that are born, die, and are reborn,” — The New York Times.
“A stunning novel with wonderful, very vivid characters—elegiac and at the same time tense—about family, loss, and the complexities of relationships between loved ones,” — Shelf Awareness.
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