The Storyteller of Casablanca

This evocative tale from the bestselling author of The Dressmaker’s Gift offers a young girl hope in a strange new city, Morocco, 1941.

With France having fallen to Nazi occupation, twelve-year-old Josie has fled with her family to Casablanca, where they await safe passage to America.

Life here is as intense as the sun, every sight, smell and sound overwhelming to the senses in a city filled with extraordinary characters.

It’s a world away from the trouble back home - and Josie loves it.

Seventy years later, another new arrival in the intoxicating port city discovers a small wooden box and a diary from the 1940s beneath the floorboards of her daughter’s bedroom, entering the inner world of young Josie who once looked out on the same view of the Atlantic Ocean but knew a very different Casablanca.

Can this new perspective help turn tragedy into hope and find comfort to heal a broken heart?