The London House by Katherine Reay

 I love World War Two stories and this one doesn't disappoint. Katherine Reay is one of my favourite authors, so I am glad that she decided to set part of this novel in the war. As always, she tells a moving and poignant tale, but it is quite different from her previous books.

When Caroline's old friend Matt, a historian, turns up with a project, he tells her a dark secret about her aunt. Caroline was named after her aunt, and she is really quite shocked about this secret but when she thinks back about her rather lonely and miserable upbringing, she is not surprised. She goes to her family's house in London to investigate. Was her aunt really a traitor or not?

The beginning annoyed me a bit because Matt seemed a bit pushy about wanting to investigate another family's secret, although he wrote a good letter to Caroline with a compelling argument, and he grew more likeable. Another slight flaw was that 'the Mitford sisters' were mentioned at least twice as favouring Hitler, when it was only Diana and Unity. The rest of the sisters were certainly very firmly on the Allied side!

I received this free ebook from NetGalley in return for an honest review.