Guest Post: Reluctant Courage by Rica Newbery
Please welcome author Rica Newbery and her new book: Reluctant Courage A Family’s Struggle to Survive in Nazi Occupied Oslo By Rica Newbery Amazon | Book Venture It is 1942 in Oslo, two years into the Nazi occupation of World War II. Maria is used to struggling with food rations, bickering daughters, and her husband’s frequent absences from home with police work. She is enraged when Johannes leaves her for another woman and Leo Wolff, a Wehrmacht officer, forcibly takes up residence in their flat, but worse is yet to come. One daughter becomes seriously ill, and another is raped. When the youngest goes missing, Maria must find a way to transcend her bitterness and survive, for her own sake and for her daughters. Although my novel is fiction, it is inspired by real stories told by my mother who was 8 years old when the Nazis marched into Oslo. Real events and situations experienced by Norwegians are woven into the story. Resistance fighters risked death e...