The Stars We Share

ΓÇ£Dazzles from start to finish.ΓÇ¥ ΓÇöGeorgia Hunter,New York Times bestselling author of We Were the Lucky Ones Set against the backdrop of World War IIa sweepingatmospheric novel of sacrificeambitionand commitmentand the secrets we keep from the ones we love It’s 1927 when Alec and June meet as children in a tranquil English village. Alecan orphananchors himself in the night sky and longs for adventures. June memorizes maps and railway timetablesimagining a future bright with possibilities. As the years passtheir loves feels inevitablebut soon the Second World War separates them. Alec enlists as a Royal Air Force pilot flying daredevil fighter sorties at night; June finds her calling as a codebreaker at Bletchley Parkcovert work that will mean keeping her contribution to the war effort a secret from Alec forever. Each is following a dreamΓÇöbut those dreams force them apart for years at a time. Their postwar reunion is bittersweet: Alecshot down and imprisoned in a series of POW campsgrapples with his injuries and the loss of his RAF career. Juneon the other handhas found her vocation and struggles to follow the expected path to domesticityas much as she loves Alec. But Alec wants nothing more than to make a life and a family together. With the war behind themtheir scarsΓÇöboth visible and unseenΓÇömake them strangers to each other. Now each must decide how much to reveal to the otherwhich dreams can be sacrificedand which secrets are too big to bear alone. Spanning forty years and shifting from bustling Indian ports to vibrant gardens in Edinburgh to a horse farm in KenyaThe Stars We Share is a poignantheart-wrenching novel about the decisions and concessions that make a life and a love worth having.