Definitely recommended if you enjoyed the first book, or if you like historical fiction with a dual timeline.

and a scandal sees her disappearing from Paris, from the family who constrained her and wished for her just to marry and bear children.

She has strong viewpoints and I admired how she always stuck to her principals especially when she discovers some shady and underhand things going on in Malta which is where she ventures to when her parents turn their back on her. I thought it was brilliant the way the author raised an issue which is still very much prevalent today as you forget that things like this have existed for a very long time. Her relationship with her mother is not good but she is persuaded to try to find Rosalie, her mother’s sister, who disappeared some years before.

Here's what Santa Montefiore said: ‘My ideal read; mystery, love, heart-break and joy – I couldn’t put it down. Fast-forward to the final months of the Second World War, Florence is sent on a mission to find out what happened to Rosalie. When Florence is asked by her mother, in 1944, to look for her sister, Rosalie, she wonders if her aunt is still alive on an island attacked so badly and knows she must wait until after the war to make the journey. I enjoyed reading of her transition to Malta and although I could sense deep down that leaving Paris in the way and on the terms that she did was not what she truly wanted she knew that to be independent and follow her dreams she had to forge her own path without the support of her family.

Through their journey Jack and Florence have become much closer but she knows she can’t thread in the footsteps of Helene whom it was clear had more than just a friendly affection for Jack. The guns piled high on the hall table when the rubber planters came into town for a party, the colour and noise of Chinatown, the houses on stilts, and the lizards that left their tails behind. This is the second book in the series and after loving the first one, I was very excited to start reading. In the latter years of WW2 and following its end, Florence is reeling from the war and a secret about her own past she has uncovered.

The plot picks up more or less from where the first instalment left off and yes the many questions I had by the time I reached the final word of Daughters of War were answered but only over time. This second book is a dual timeline featuring Florence the youngest sister, and Rosalie, their aunt who left Paris in 1923 for Malta. To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average. Dinah Jefferies has been a favourite author of mine, since 2014 when her debut novel 'The Separation'.This has dual timelines featuring Florence the youngest sister and Rosalie their aunt, who left to go to Malta in 1923. We don’t share your credit card details with third-party sellers, and we don’t sell your information to others.