The Whispers of War by Julia Kelly

Three women became best friends while attending a boarding school in England, and this absorbing story looks back at their dramatic life-changing events and interactions at the beginning of World War 2. The surviving 103-year-old Nora relates them to the granddaughter of recently deceased German-born Marie, who faced bigotry and possible internment as Hitler marched across Europe and the British became increasingly hostile to German immigrants regardless of the longevity of their residence in England. This well written historical fiction imparts a vivid flavor of a horrible consequence of wartime fervor and fear for ordinary people suddenly made alien and unsafe in their adopted country.