Tamar Audio : A Novel of Espionage, Passion, and Betrayal (CD-Audio)

from DeltaQueen50

Tamar by Mal Peet is a vividly told story that jumps back and forth from WW II to the present. In 1944 two soldiers are dropped into Holland to help organize the Resistance while in 1995 a young woman launches her search to reveal family secrets from the strange clues in a shoebox left for her by...

from yellowoasis

Carnegie winner 2006, and not the kind of book I'd normally choose – war story, airplane on front cover etc. Story of two SOE operators in occupied Apeldoorn, conveniently code-named Tamar and Dart. This is a plot point. They both fall in love with the same Dutch woman, and one of the men is kill...

from DeltaQueen50

Tamar by Mal Peet is a vividly told story that jumps back and forth from WW II to the present. In 1944 two soldiers are dropped into Holland to help organize the Resistance while in 1995 a young woman launches her search to reveal family secrets from the strange clues in a shoebox left for her by...

from meteowrite

A good story, overall. I had a sense of what was going to happen on about page 75. The "betrayal" on the cover gave it away. I was ready for it to end several days before I finished it, but I think that says more about the amount of time I was able to spend with it than it does about the story it...

from jamaicanmecrazy

How do you criticize a book awarded a Carnegie medal? There were parts of this book which enthralled me, and parts that seemed just a bit contrived. I guessed the plot twist early on which didn't make it less interesting, but stories where the endings are wrapped up neatly (to me) makes the diffe...