The Story Collector portrays three women who demonstrate real strength of character - Katerina beginning in 1915; Miriam beginning in 1918 and Edie in the present day.

The author intricately brings together each of these women with their stories of love and life. The twists and turns in the plot and the way in which every chapter sheds a little more light on how these women are linked, kept me engaged until the very end.

I particularly enjoyed learning a little about the WW1 German Linguistics Project - this is not something I have come across previously in any historical fiction novel.

Thank you to the publisher, Penguin General UK, Viking, for a digital copy of this book via NetGalley in exchange for an honest review.