Maggie Brookes

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Maggie Brookes

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Maggie Brookes is a British ex-journalist and BBC television producer turned poet and novelist.
The Prisoner’s Wife is based on an extraordinary true story of love and courage, told to her by an ex-WW2 prisoner of war. Maggie visited the Czech Republic, Poland and Germany as part of her research for the book, learning largely forgotten aspects of the war.
The Prisoner’s Wife is due to be published by imprints of Penguin Random House in the UK and in the US in May 2020. Publication in other countries, including Holland, Italy, Portugal, Hungary, Poland and the Czech Republic will follow.
As well as being a writer, Maggie is an advisory fellow for the Royal Literary Fund and also an Associate Professor at Middlesex University, London, England,
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Average rating: 4.06 · 3,424 ratings · 630 reviews · 3 distinct worksSimilar authors
The Prisoner's Wife

4.08 avg rating — 3,142 ratings — published 2020 — 33 editions
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Acts of Love and War

3.80 avg rating — 203 ratings — published 2022 — 8 editions
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House of Dreams

3.94 avg rating — 78 ratings — published 2015 — 2 editions
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I would like to get a copy of this wonderful book into every school in the country, and into the hands of every politician, teacher, parent and child. It could not be more timely, or better judged. It is by turns eloquent, terrifying, funny and bitte ...more
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“But all she would remember was the way they stopped and stared as though she was a vision, as though she could become the fixed point in the turmoil of their lives. As though she would save them.”
Maggie Brookes, Acts of Love and War

“The Spanish poet Lorca wrote, 'To burn with desire and keep quiet about it is the greatest punishment we can bring on ourselves.' And now I have lifted that punishment from my heart and I feel free for the first time in years because I can say - you are my darling”
Maggie Brookes, Acts of Love and War

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