A review of The Lost Boys by Catherine Bailey

For cliffhangers at the end of every chapter: Catherine Bailey has long been a favourite author of mine for her pacy style and the way she ends chapters. In Black Diamonds: The Rise and Fall of an English Dynasty (Penguin, 2008) and The Secret Rooms: A Castle Filled with Intrigue, a Plotting Duchess, and a Mysterious Death, the author unpicks the dastardly doings of two upper class families. In The Lost Boys (Viking, 2019), however, the focus is on a woman, Fey von Hassell, the daughter of the man who tried to assassinate Hitler. In fact, because of her centrality, the book’s title was later changed to Fey’s War. The story follows Fey, separated from her two sons, from the moment of her arrest to the end of the war. As with all her history books, Bailey manages to keep your heart racing, wanting to know what happens next, right to the very end.

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