Amanda N Clarke

Black, Red, Gold Amanda N Clarke

In 2014 . . . Sydney Baumann has suddenly come into possession of many letters. Hundreds of them, yellowed and written in her grandmother's neat cursive, stuffed in the ugly yellow suitcase given to her before she unhappily boards a plane to a country she hardly knows, and away from Victor-the man she loves. However, when Sydney meets Markos, who looks eerily similar to a mysterious man in an old photograph mixed in with the letters, she is determined to find out just who the man is, and why he was so important to her grandma. In 1938 . . . Sydney's grandma, Audrey, living in 1930's Germany, is perfectly content with her life-until a sudden series of events leads her to worry about her family. Amid the reign of the Nazi Party, Audrey's brother Ernest joins the Hitler Youth. As the Nazis begin to control more and more of everyday life, Audrey knows that she must do whatever she can to get her family out of Germany before it is too late.