Crossing the Borders of Time: A True Story of War, Exile, and Love Reclaimed Audiobook

Quotes

• “One of those sweeping, epic, romantic novels that seems tailor-made for the Oscars and a long summer afternoon. Except it’s real! Leslie Maitland has the rare ability to bring history, adventure, and love alive. The fact that this story captures her mother’s life gives it a wonderful added poignancy. I wish I could sit in on the many delighted book groups that will devour this beautiful book.”

  — Bruce Feiler, New York Times bestselling author of Walking the Bible and Abraham

• “How the small flame of an undying love can illuminate the darkness of a tragic era. This elegantly told story is for everyone.” 

  — James Carroll, New York Times bestselling author

• “A mesmerizing memoir of one family’s shattering experience during World War II. It’s a tale at once heartbreaking and uplifting.” 

  — Linda Fairstein, New York Times bestselling author

• “Maitland is a brilliant reporter who knows what questions to ask and how to get her story. Written with the precision of a historian, the result is a work I could not put down and scarcely wanted to end.”

  — Michael Berenbaum, former director of the Holocaust Research Institute at the US Holocaust Memorial Museum

• “A love affair thwarted by war, distance, and a disapproving family became the defining story of Leslie Maitland’s mother’s life, and by extension, her own. What happens next is surprising indeed.”

  — Cokie Roberts, NPR and ABC News analyst and author

• “Not only original social history of a high order, but one of the most poignant love-lost, love-found stories I have ever read, with an ending that Hollywood wouldn’t dare.”

  — Robert MacNeil, journalist and author

• “This wonderful book, written by a wonderful award-winning writer, did a notable job putting an extraordinary confluence of hope , love, hatred, and history of her family’s escape from Germany and France during World War II. Leslie Maitland’s personal account of her family is a major contribution to history interlaced with a lovely love story.”

  — Arts & Leisure News

• “This is a worthy testament to how war and displacement conspire against personal happiness.”

  — Publishers Weekly

• “This is a fascinating story of thwarted love, longing, and the travails of one woman and one family within the broader context of war and persecution…[An] incredible story of the gauzy intersection of memory and fact.”

  — Booklist (starred review)

• “A poignantly rendered, impeccably researched tale of a rupture healed by time.”

  — Kirkus Reviews