Debut novelist Laura Spence-Ash’s “BEYOND THAT, THE SEA”

Booktalk with Diana Korte · Apr 7, 2023 · 8m

Inspired by a 25-year-old New York Times article about World War II evacuated English children revisiting their U.S. foster homes as adults, Laura Spence-Ash tells her own well researched story, ⁠BEYOND THAT, THE SEA. The book follows the lives of two families over three decades. Their lives become intertwined when Beatrix, the eleven-year-old daughter of the English family, is sent to live with an American family during the height of the London Blitz. Bea’s story begins as German bombs fall over London in 1940, and her working-class parents Millie and Reginald Thompson make an impossible…