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The Seventh Room An odd little woman in the Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare WW2 fiction. 2024 When Germany voted a tyrant into power, resistance came too late A heartbreaking and healing story of love, trust, honour, treason, resistance, and a deadly, killing anger, set in the simmering pressure cooker that was Colditz Castle in World War II. The SOE is recruiting for spies and saboteurs to set Europe ablaze. Haunted by dreams of the Burning Times, Tomasin West signs up. She's a midwife and a nurse; a healer, but inside her a dangerous anger is clamoring. The Nazis have launched a latter-day witch-hunt across Europe, and now she's a saboteur, so something is going to burn. The Welsh-born son of a dead German war hero, Peter Brandt is an officer in the German army, just like his father before him - except that Peter is spying for Michael Hendry, a maverick British Intelligence chief. Billeted in the infamous allied officers' POW camp at Colditz Castle, Peter becomes involved with the ill-fated resistance, and finds himself captivated by their lost Germany. The complications pile up when he learns that the new prisoner, an odd little woman, is another of Hendry's agents, thrown into the castle as bait in a trap for the officers. As the war boils around them, the stone-cold castle turns into a crucible. Prejudice and hate are burned away or tempered, and new forms emerge; enemy, friend, traitor... witch and witch-finder. But who gets to define 'traitor', and how do you define a witch? When those Tommie has come to love are threatened, she must define herself; is she really a healer, or... something else entirely? Emotional, gripping, and healing, The Seventh Room will be loved by fans of The Nightingale, Code Name Sapphire, Churchill's Secret Messenger and Beneath a Scarlet Sky.

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Nicola Belluomo has been an archivist, a nurse, and almost a midwife. She now teaches English as a Second Language from her home on the Devon/ Somerset border in the UK. As a child - the daughter of an RAF officer - the place she called home and hearth was her grandparents' village in South Wales which inspired the lane, the hill and the churchyard featured in The Seventh Room. Night-swimming from a row-boat off Corfu, and the magical realism of the Scottish mountain winds are also biographical. Studying English Literature and Drama at Loughborough University, she learned that the immersive reading of fiction and non-fiction can teach humankind more about itself than all the current affairs and social media in the world.

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