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Pre-order This Beautifully Compelling Wartime Story Of Freedom And Love The Sky Is Clear, Star-stamped And Silvered By The Waxing Gibbous Moon. No Planes Have Flown Over The Islands Tonight; No Bombs Have Fallen For Over A Year. ___________ Orkney, 1940. Five Hundred Italian Prisoners-of-war Arrive To Fortify These Remote And Windswept Islands. Resentful Islanders Are Fearful Of The Enemy In Their Midst, But Not Orphaned Twin Sisters Dorothy And Constance. Already Outcasts, They Volunteer To Nurse All Prisoners Who Are Injured Or Fall Sick. Soon Dorothy Befriends Cesare, An Artists Swept Up By The Machine Of War And Almost Broken By The Horrors He Has Witnessed. She Is Entranced By His Plan To Build An Italian Chapel From War Scrap And Sea Derbis, And Something Beautiful Begins To Blossom. But Con, Scarred From A Betrayal In Her Past, Is Afraid For Her Sister; She Knows That People Are Not Always What They Seem. Soon, Trust Frays Between The Islanders And Outsiders, And Between The Sisters - Their Hearts Torn By Rival Claims Of Duty And Desire. A Storm Is Coming... In The Tradition Of Captain Corelli's Mandolin, The Metal Heart Is A Hauntingly Rich Second World War Love Story About

Author

Caroline Lea

Publisher

Penguin Books, Limited

Published

2021

Language

EN

ISBN

9780241423301

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Humanities