{"id":2227,"date":"2022-05-05T15:12:46","date_gmt":"2022-05-05T15:12:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/?p=2227"},"modified":"2023-04-02T23:01:49","modified_gmt":"2023-04-02T23:01:49","slug":"that-summer-in-berlin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/?p=2227","title":{"rendered":"That Summer in Berlin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hopes and fears are nested within secrets and lies in this historical romance\/spy novel that moves from English drawing rooms to the 1936 Berlin Olympics. The same fraught layers form the novel, which sees pensive Viviane Alden travel to Germany with her flighty stepsister, Julia, to visit eligible distant acquaintances. The author\u2019s note from Canadian author Cornwall (The Woman at the Front) explains that right up till 1939, intermarriage of English and German aristocracy was encouraged as a way to avoid a repeat of the Great War. The young women are matched with Otto and Felix, sons of the house, who, like Viviane and Julia, show how different siblings can be. Otto is a devoted Nazi who\u2019s rising in the ranks, while his brother, a chemist who flaunts his family\u2019s expectations by working with a Jewish Nobel prize winner, wants none of his brother\u2019s fascist displays. Berlin during Hitler\u2019s reign, and the fawning of international celebrities who thought the dictator a buffoon who\u2019d soon disappear, are chillingly portrayed here. They form an ever more sinister backdrop to Viviane\u2019s clandestine photography of wartime activities in partnership with a dashing journalist\/spy. <strong>This has an air of Ian McEwan\u2019s <em>Atonement<\/em>, with its sweeping vistas and wartime romance; fans of the debutante politics of <\/strong>Bridgerton<strong> will find intrigue here too.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hopes and fears are nested within secrets and lies in this historical romance\/spy novel that moves from English drawing rooms to the 1936 Berlin Olympics. The same fraught layers form&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":2226,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[55,65,164,56],"class_list":["post-2227","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-review","tag-mystery-detective","tag-police-procedural","tag-star","tag-women-sleuths"],"featured_image_src":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/formidable\/4\/Berlin-400x400.jpg","featured_image_src_square":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/formidable\/4\/Berlin.jpg","author_info":{"display_name":"Henrietta Thornton","author_link":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/?author=4"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2227","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2227"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2227\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2226"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2227"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2227"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2227"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}