An Ordinary Life

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But her socked feet misjudged the two hundred year old staircase and she clutched her little teacup to her chest as if her life depended on it - it had been her grandmother's teacup - as if protecting it was of greater importance than any attempt to protect her aged bones. But then war forces her to make an unforgettable sacrifice, and when she’s brought to her knees by a daring undercover mission with the French Resistance, only her sister knows the secret weighing heavily on Molly’s heart. The final chapter of the book manages to be heartbreaking and yet uplifting at the same time and the epilogue is .

A secret that she has carried for seventy five years and now she is the only one remaining that knows of it. It’s very much focused on what happens to her in the 40s though, with then brief sections set throughout the ensuing decades.Thanks to NetGalley for my copy of An Ordinary Life, I enjoyed the story, maybe it could have been a little shorter and three stars from me. Described by the Daily Mail as ‘The queen of family drama’ Amanda’s novel, ‘ A Mother’s Story‘ won the coveted Sainsbury’s eBook of the year Award while ‘ Perfect Daughter‘ was selected as a World Book Night title in 2016. Molly is working for the war effort, and given her gift for languages she is actually more of an asset than she realizes.

She cursed her inability to finish the note she had started, wishing nothing more than to place it in the hand of the boy who had shaped her whole life.

Lying alone on a trolley in a corridor, unable to imagine whatever might come next, able to think only about what had gone before: each step, each breath and each day that had led up to that point in time. London 1943: Nineteen year old Molly Collway works as a translator of both German a An Ordinary Life is a sometimes gritty, sometimes heartbreaking, and sometimes uplifting story of a woman who has to live with her choices for her whole life. The book begins with her writing a very important letter and then having a very serious fall down the stairs. All that said, not everything ordinary has to be heroic, but there are a good number of things in our lives where we can simply be.