![]() Beside a shimmering lake, the Chinese Tower rose in red and black magnificence. For example, this is a description of the Tivoli Gardens: The descriptions and writing is, as always with Sarah Sundin's books, beautiful. ![]() Their resistance to the war is also a powerful bond. Hemming and Laila live in the same boarding house and slowly connect, as friends first, and then there is a spark between them that they can't ignore. Else spreads the truth about the war through underground newspapers, becoming even more involved when her best friend Laila, who is Jewish, is in jeopardy. Hemming, the Havmand (merman) rows back and forth at night with messages. This is a beautifully told story about people finding courage they didn't know they had and banding together to do good even at great personal risk. I particularly enjoy historical fiction set during World War II and was curious about the Danish setting I knew very little about life in Denmark during the war. I wanted to read this novel because I love Sarah Sundin's books - she is my favorite author in this genre, and I have recommended her writing so many times over to friends. It is the story of two different (but surprisingly similar) people - Else Jensen, an American physicist working at a research lab and quietly also working to help with a resistance newspaper, and Hemming, the assumed name of Baron Henrik Ahlefeldt, a formerly dissolute playboy and Olympic rower turned resistance hero. ![]() The Sound of Light is a historical novel set in Copenhagen during World War II. ![]()
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