Never Tear Us Apart

Author/Guide: Rowan Coleman

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1942, 2025: Fate has brought them together. Will time tear them apart?

ISBN: 978-1529376630
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What you need to know before your trail

Named after a star, war correspondent Maia knows how to find the brightest stories – the tales of survival and strength – hidden amongst the dark realities of combat.

Now, travelling to Malta to visit her estranged father, with one more chance to build a relationship with her last remaining relative, she’s here to find her own story: never having found somewhere – or someone – she can call home, she’s desperate for answers that might show her where she truly belongs.

But when she arrives on the beautiful Mediterranean island, she realises her long-lost family is full of more secrets than she could possibly have imagined. . .

Maia wakes up to find herself on an island under siege, a city in ruins – and knows she must have been sent here for a reason.

Who has she been sent to save? Or is it Maia herself that needs saving? And just when she’s finally found what she’s been seeking . . . will time separate them forever?

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Malta – WW2

The author has written a very personal novel and be sure to read her author note for key insights into the story and why she wrote it.

The story of Malta in WW2 is one that not many people would perhaps know. Some is based on real fact and some is fiction. Christina Strickland is real as is Mabel Strickland but there are many fictional bits about them and Rowan Coleman has taken fact and fiction and created fresh characters.

Danny is a fictional character inspired by two pilots that fought in Malta during the siege. Canadian George Beurling and Denis Bernham.

As for the temples and ancient sites of Malta, they are well evoked and written about in the novel so you get a keen sense of the island at the time of the war.

And, as for the story of a group of children going missing which was reported in National Geographic in 1940 but it is widely believed to be an urban legend.