Patti Callahan Henry

In The Secret Book of Flora Lea by bestselling author Patti Callahan Henry, a young woman discovers a rare book that reopens the most shattering event of her life: the disappearance of her younger sister from a countryside village where they were evacuated to during the London Blitz of World War II. When Hazel seeks the truth, she is met by guarded responses. Across a generation of war survivors, this compelling novel explores family, fear, loss, love, forgiveness, and captures the essence of sisterhood.

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