The Ways We Hide by Kristina McMorris
Genre: Historical
Fiction, WWII
Publication: September 6th 2022
Taken from Goodreads: From the New York Times bestselling author of Sold on a Monday comes a sweeping World War II tale of an illusionist whose recruitment by British Intelligence sets her on a perilous, heartrending path
Raised amid the hardships of Michigan's Copper Country, Fenna Vos has learned to focus on her own survival-even now, with the Second World War raging in faraway countries. Though she performs onstage as the assistant to an unruly escape artist, behind the curtain she's the mastermind of their act. After all, her honed ability to control her surroundings and elude entrapments, physical or otherwise, reliably suppresses the traumas of her youth.
For all her planning, however, Fenna fails to predict being called upon by British Intelligence. Tasked with creating escape tools to thwart the Germans, MI9 seeks those with specialized skills for a war nearing its breaking point. Fenna reluctantly joins the unconventional team as an inventor. But when a test of her loyalty draws her deep into the fray, she discovers no mission is more treacherous than escaping one's past.
Inspired by stunning true accounts, The Ways We Hide is a riveting story of love and loss, the wars we fight-on the battlefields and within ourselves-and the courage found in unexpected places.
My
Thoughts: I could not
pass up this book. Kristina McMorris
wrote Sold on a Monday, a book that I still talk about and recommend, and I
knew that I had to read more of her books.
I am thrilled to say that she did not disappoint. The Ways We Hide is a phenomenal World War
II book with a unique look at life during that time. Fenna has a unique talent as an escape artist
and she uses that talent to help the war efforts.
The Ways We
Hide is a story of love and loss, but it is even more the story of survival. The
story of doing what she must just to stay alive. The story of working to thwart the efforts of
the Germans but using escape tricks. The
story is familiar if you are a WWII reader, like I am, but it is so unique in
the details of working with British Intelligence.
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Meet Kristina McMorris (taken from her website): Kristina McMorris is a New York Times, Wall Street Journal and USA Today bestselling author published by Sourcebooks Landmark, Penguin Random House, HarperCollins, and Kensington Books. Her novels have garnered more than two dozen prestigious awards and nominations, including the IMPAC Dublin Literary Award, RWA's RITA® Award, and a Goodreads Choice Award for Best Historical Fiction.
At age nine, she began creatively expressing herself when
she embarked on a five-year stint as the host of an Emmy® and Ollie
award-winning kids' television program. Being half Japanese, Kristina jokes
that she discovered a genetic kinship with the camera early in life and
continued to nurture that relationship by acting in many independent and major
films while living in Los Angeles. Later, as the owner of a wedding/event
planning company, she served as the six-year host of the WB's weekly
program Weddings Portland Style.
Kristina's extensive experience in media and events led her
to becoming a professional emcee and contributing writer for Portland
Bride & Groom magazine. Her previous writing background also
includes ten years of directing public relations for an international
conglomerate.
In 2001, deciding sleep was highly overrated, she compiled
hundreds of her grandmother's favorite recipes for a holiday gift that quickly
evolved into a self-published cookbook. With proceeds benefiting the Food
Bank, Grandma Jean's Rainy Day Recipes sold at such stores as
Borders and was heavily featured in regional media. It was while gathering
information for the book's biographical section when Kristina happened across
the letters her grandfather mailed to his "sweetheart" during his
wartime naval service—a collection that years later inspired McMorris to pen
her first novel, a WWII love story titled Letters from Home.
Since her debut released in 2011, in addition to her
novellas in the anthologies A Winter Wonderland and Grand
Central, Kristina's published works have expanded to include the
novels Bridge of Scarlet Leaves, The Pieces We Keep, The
Edge of Lost, and Sold on a Monday, a runaway bestseller with
almost a million copies sold. Her books have been translated into multiple
languages and appeared in compilations by Readers Digest, Doubleday, the
Literary Guild, and more.
A frequent guest speaker and workshop presenter, McMorris
holds a B.S. in International Marketing from Pepperdine University. She lives
in her home state of Oregon, where (if her agent asks) she is working
tirelessly on her next novel.
