“A heartrending story of passion and loss.”
—Mary-Rose MacColl, internationally bestselling author of In Falling Snow
“If I Could Tell You is a marvelous work of historical fiction, beautifully crafted and inhabited by morally complex and fully realized characters. It’s one of the best novels I’ve read this year, compelling, immersive, and utterly impossible to put down.”
—Jennifer Chiaverini, New York Times bestselling author of Fates and Traitors and Mrs. Lincoln’s Dressmaker
“Vivid, candid, engaging. So honest.”
—Helen Dunmore, author of Exposure
“Shades of Brief Encounter surround this wonderful, clear-eyed story set in the London Blitz. As war devastates the city, love tears a woman’s life apart. The story of Julia, a woman undone by her affair, is both realistic and utterly heart wrenching.”
—Jane Thynne, author of The Pursuit of Pearls
“Elizabeth Wilhide writes with a historian’s eye and a storyteller’s grace. In If I Could Tell You, she transports readers from prewar Britain to the Blitz and beyond, showing us how love, lust, and ultimately family can guide the heart even through the most difficult times. I fell in love with this perfectly executed take on the love triangle and the tragic heroine who turns out to be more than she ever imagined.”
—Karin Tanabe, author of The Gilded Years
“Unflinching, excellent . . . Wartime Britain has been rarely so skillfully evoked.”
—Daily Mail (London)
“Beautifully observed and written.”
—Woman and Home
“An elegant, absorbing tale of hope and resilience.”
—Sainsbury’s Magazine
“Elizabeth Wilhide writes about universal emotions with great tenderness and imagination.”
—Claire Fuller, author of Our Endless Numbered Days