Rosa's Gold

By: Ray Kingfisher

Narrated by: Simon Mattacks, Billie Fulford-Brown

Nicole Sutton’s world has been turned upside down. Sixteen and suffering the fallout of a devastating family tragedy, she is forced to move away from her London home to the quiet town of Henley - and a new life she never wanted nor expected.

In the dusty cellar of her strange new house, Nicole stumbles upon a worn old journal left behind by a previous occupant. Inside, through the eyes of a soldier named Mac, she finds herself drawn into a brutally honest memoir of the horrors of war and Auschwitz - and of the life and love Mac had to leave behind.

The more Nicole reads, the more she is able to make sense of her own troubles. Because Mac’s story is so much more than a journal: it is the story of a family fighting for survival in the darkest days of humanity, of hope in the face of persecution. And then there’s the buried gold...

©2016 Ray Kingfisher. (P)2018 Brilliance Publishing, Inc., all rights reserved.

Great Book

This was a great read; I really enjoyed it and I loved how it ended.

WOW, JUST WOW!

This is a fantastic book! The story is great no doubt about it! The narration is wonderful and easy to listen to! I highly recommend this book!

Frightening and informative the horrors of the prison camps

We all need to know what happened at these camps and never forget! But the love and persistence of Mac was amazing. Beautiful and sad story!

Listened Twice

Loved the way Simon Mattucks does accents.
Story realistic, the romance, the horror of the War.

Female narrator good with male voices. Hard to do. A criticism: lighten up on the American "r", and the word "anything." We say "en- ee-thing." We don't make the "y" a schwa: "en-uh-thing."

Engaging story of love, loss, horrors of war

Rosa's Gold sets its two groups of main characters in alternating chapters. Initially, the two sets of characters seem to have little to do with each other; but as the storyline unfolds, we see how their stories intertwine and influence each other. The first set of characters includes people from England and Italy, accidentally brought together during World War II by acts of personal bravery and defiance of totalitarianism, and follows them through their adult lives lived in the shadow of physical and emotional suffering. The second set of characters is a modern-day British family experiencing devastating loss and grief that drives them apart. While darkened by the horrors of Nazi Germany, the overall theme is one of forgiveness and reconciliation. I found this book easy to listen to, due to the interesting story, well-drawn characters, and good narration.