The Exile`s Daughter

A Tale of Anglesey and the Great War

By: John Wheatley

Narrated by: Virtual Voice

She ran from Poland as a child. She thought Wales would keep her safe. She was wrong.
At ten years old, Lauren Bucievski was torn from everything she knew. No explanation. No goodbye. Just her father's hand pulling her into the dark, and the sound of their old life disappearing behind them.
Wales gave her shelter. A quiet bay. A new name for her fear. But safety has a way of being temporary and when Stefan walks back into her world from across the sea, Lauren realises she has been waiting for her past to find her all along.
Across a bleeding Europe, a young Polish soldier claws his way through German captivity, forced labour, and the unrelenting horror of the Western Front. He has survived things that should have broken him. But survival and living are not the same thing.
And when 1914 sets the world on fire their stories will collide in ways neither could have survived alone.
The Exile's Daughter is the kind of historical novel that gets under your skin. Sweeping in scope, intimate in detail it moves between the windswept silence of rural Wales and the chaos of a war that swallowed a generation. John Wheatley reminds us that history doesn't just happen to nations. It happens to people. To families. To a girl standing at the edge of the sea, wondering if she'll ever stop running.
Fans of Birdsong, The Alice Network and Suite Française won't want to miss this.