So, overall, while I enjoyed the experience of the read right up until the end, I did feel like it could have been a better story with some rearrangement and a less metaphorical title. It comes toward the very end of the book. Perhaps you would feel more able to give it a pass than me. I can’t discuss in detail without plot spoiling. I’m not a complete stickler for total historic accuracy in historic fiction and even less so with a historic romance, but I will mention there was one plot point in particular that was so unlikely given what we know about WWII that it did make me grumpy. So there’s a lot of loose ends with regards to Eliza and Alex that are frustrating. The other confusing thing about this is if Ellie is Eliza reincarnated, Eliza passing a few years ago when Ellie is in her 20s at the moment doesn’t make sense for a reincarnation. It could be implied that she passed a few years ago or it could be understood to mean something different. There’s a passing mention that Ellie’s grandmother (great-grandmother?) who was friends with Eliza inherited the Cornwall property from her a few years ago. We never find out exactly what happened to them – either as a couple or how and when they died. Second, we do not actually get closure on Eliza and Alex’s story. The other is a train in Europe but its destination is not Berlin. One is the train to Cornwall ridden at two different time periods. But of course the liberators didn’t take trains. (Eliza as a nurse and war artist, Alex as a war correspondent). Eliza and Alex meet on a night train to Cornwall and then later promise to see each other in Berlin alongside the liberating forces. The train to Berlin in the title is a metaphor. There are also two things that I think it’s important to know before picking up the book. For this reason, I think it would have been better to have completely told Eliza and Alex’s story and then end the book with an epilogue short version of Ellie and Joe’s. Plus, the present day takes on greater meaning the more you get to know Eliza and Alex. Because so much more was happening in 1944 with such greater risk to Eliza and Alex, I found myself wanting to skip over the present day to go to the past. The present day storyline is basically just the day of the night party train and the day immediately after. It had more action and covered a larger period of time. I liked both storylines for the majority of the book, although the 1944 appealed more to me. It strongly hints that present day Ellie and Joe are reincarnations of 1944 Eliza and Alex. This book tells two love stories by alternating between the two different timelines – present day and 1944. But this is a time when promises are hard to keep, and hope is all you can hold in your heart. With time slipping away they make only one promise: to meet in Berlin when this is all over. She is a gutsy painter desperate to get to the frontline as a war artist and he is a wounded RAF pilot now commissioned as a war correspondent. But when she meets fellow passenger Joe she feels like she has been given that rarest of gifts…a second chance.īeneath the shadow of the war which rages across Europe, Alex and Eliza meet by chance. Ellie Nightingale is a shy violinist who plays like her heart is broken. A love that echoes through time….Ī young woman boards the sleeper train to Cornwall with only a beautiful emerald silk evening dress and an old, well-read diary full of sketches. Donations will be held aside to assist funding research focused on treating Rhabdoid Tumor Cancer in pediatrics.A train journey into the past. Donations, albeit none expected, in Eliza’s memory may be made to Eliza’s family through Eliza’s GoFundMe page “Hey Eliza" organized by Chance Moore. Eliza's family will be having private services under the care of Cotner Funeral Home. Eliza is survived by her loving parents Kathryn “Kate” Hudson and Chance Moore grandparents Nancy Hudson, Don Moore, and Robin Cook aunts Rachel Wrobel, Bella Moore, and great aunt Cheryl Becker uncles Tristan Moore and Adam Wrobel. Eliza is preceded in death by family she never met, as they, too, were taken too soon: her grandfather Richard “Dick" Hudson, her aunt Emily Hudson, and her baby sister, whom none were able to meet. Eliza embodied what it means to truly live. Eliza loved to be outside, to feel the crinkly grass beneath her toes, to take long walks and explore every detail this world has to offer, to dance and shake her booty, to sing songs from her favorite movies (including “My Fair Lady”), to swing under the trees, to laugh, to make everyone around her laugh, to embrace life for what it is – finite, unpredictably fragile, and very much worth living for. She was born in Columbus, Ohio on August 10, 2018. Eliza Adalynn Moore, 2 ½, of Hilliard, passed away as she laid between her loving parents on Sunday, June 20, 2021.
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