Touching the Wire
My second novel, Touching the Wire will be released on November 1st 2014. It is now available as an e-book for pre-order on Amazon for Kindle.
Rebecca Bryn
http://www.amazon.co.uk/TOUCHING-WIRE...
A novel in two parts. Part one takes us to the horror of a Nazi death camp where a young doctor and nurse struggle against a brutal regime to save lives. As their relationship blossoms they join the camp resistance, risking death daily. Stolen secrets and liberation only begin another phase of the nightmare as the doctor struggles to save the life of his young love.
Part two sees the doctor's granddaughter, seventy years later, discovering an enigmatic carving that leads her on a quest to uncover her grandfather's past, his unkept promise, and the horrific secrets from which he's protected his family.
Written to commemorate the 70th anniversary of Holocaust day on January 27th 2015, this story is dedicated to the late Dr Schaeler, a Polish Jew, and a teacher at Kettering High School, and victims of tyranny everywhere. It was the pain of loss in this gentle old man's eyes that drove me to write this story. Inspiration for the plot came from a TV report and a series of burr-elm boxes made by my husband. While researching and writing Touching the Wire, I asked myself if I could forgive as many victims have managed to do. Can you? We must ensure such inhumanity can never happen again.
Rebecca Brynhttp://www.amazon.co.uk/TOUCHING-WIRE...
A novel in two parts. Part one takes us to the horror of a Nazi death camp where a young doctor and nurse struggle against a brutal regime to save lives. As their relationship blossoms they join the camp resistance, risking death daily. Stolen secrets and liberation only begin another phase of the nightmare as the doctor struggles to save the life of his young love.
Part two sees the doctor's granddaughter, seventy years later, discovering an enigmatic carving that leads her on a quest to uncover her grandfather's past, his unkept promise, and the horrific secrets from which he's protected his family.
Written to commemorate the 70th anniversary of Holocaust day on January 27th 2015, this story is dedicated to the late Dr Schaeler, a Polish Jew, and a teacher at Kettering High School, and victims of tyranny everywhere. It was the pain of loss in this gentle old man's eyes that drove me to write this story. Inspiration for the plot came from a TV report and a series of burr-elm boxes made by my husband. While researching and writing Touching the Wire, I asked myself if I could forgive as many victims have managed to do. Can you? We must ensure such inhumanity can never happen again.
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Sep 19, 2014 06:07PM
Rebecca's original story in this book was a favourite of mine under another title. I nagged her into a rewrite, and I'm very glad I did. Several versions later, Touching the Wire is one of the most powerful books I've ever had the privilege to read, even if I did cause her to stamp off in a huff now and again! I know Rebecca has pre-orders and I shall be adding my name to the list. Books on a Kindle look so different from proof-reading copies on a laptop screen. A "not-to-be-missed" book.
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Thank you, Sarah. It's the most challenging book I've ever written. It began life as The Daughters of Night, then an agent suggested altering the emphasis (to great effect) and it became In The Shadow of the Wolf. For some forgotten reason, I then altered it to The Sepia Girl, a title I love but which agents thought wasn't strong enough, so Touching the Wire was born. All the titles are apt in their own way and touch on different aspects of the story. The research had me in tears, and often I had to walk away from it, but the testimonies of the brave survivors, and the way they portrayed their experiences without bitterness, drove me to complete it. Their stories had to be told to a new generation. It's a subject that put my own life into perspective.
The Sepia Girl was very evocative, before you decided to start at the beginning. It would make a lovely title for a different story.I have no idea how people who suffered so much could write without bitterness: their faith must be incredibly strong.
