The Storyteller of Casablanca | Bookzio

In this evocative story from the bestselling creator of The Dressmaker’s Gift, an odd new metropolis gives a younger woman hope. Can it additionally supply a misplaced soul a second probability?

Morocco, 1941. With France having fallen to Nazi occupation, twelve-year-old Josie has fled along with her household to Casablanca, the place they await secure passage to America. Life right here is as intense because the solar, each sight, scent and sound overwhelming to the senses in a metropolis full of extraordinary characters. It’s a world away from the difficulty again residence—and Josie loves it.

Seventy years later, one other new arrival within the intoxicating port metropolis, Zoe, is struggling—along with her marriage, her child daughter and her new life as an expat in an unfamiliar place. But when she discovers a small picket field and a diary from the Nineteen Forties beneath the floorboards of her daughter’s bed room, Zoe enters the internal world of younger Josie, who as soon as appeared out on the identical view of the Atlantic Ocean, however who knew a really completely different Casablanca.

It’s not lengthy earlier than Zoe begins to see her adopted metropolis by Josie’s eyes. But can a brand new perspective assist her flip tragedy into hope, and discover the consolation she must heal her damaged coronary heart?