Hi y’all!

I am thrilled to participate in the cover reveal book blast of Katherine Reay’s newest novel The Berlin Letters coming in early 2024.

If you’ve been here long, you know how much I love Katherine’s books! I have been lucky to read many of her novels including Dear Mr. Knightley, Lizzy and Jane, The London House and more. I love her beautiful writing, fantastic characters, and stories that share heart, passion, and history. Check out my reviews of her novels:

Dear Mr. Knightley by Katherine Reay
Lizzy and Jane by Katherine Reay
The Bronte Plot by Katherine Reay
A Portrait of Emily Price by Katherine Reay
The Austen Escape by Katherine Reay
The London House by Katherine Reay (ARC Blog Tour Review)

The Berlin Letters is going to be a compelling novel set during the Cold War. I can’t wait to read it!

Book summary: “Near the end of the Cold War, a CIA code breaker discovers a symbol she recognizes from her childhood, which launches her across the world to the heart of Berlin just before the wall comes tumbling down.

November 1989—After finding a secret cache of letters with intelligence buried in the text, CIA cryptographer Luisa Voekler learns that not only is her father alive, but he is languishing in an East German Stasi jail. After piecing together the letters with a series of articles her grandfather saved, Luisa seeks out journalists Bran Bishop and Daniel Rudd. They send her to the CIA, to Andrew Cademan—her boss.

Luisa confronts Cademan and learns that nothing is a coincidence, but he will not help her free her father. So, she takes matters into her own hands, empties her bank account, and flies to West Berlin. As the adrenaline wears off and she recognizes she has no idea how to proceed, Luisa is both relieved and surprised when a friend shows up with contacts and a rudimentary plan to sneak her across the wall.

Alternating storylines between Luisa and her father, The Berlin Letters shows the tumultuous early days of the wall, bringing Berlin, the epicenter of the Cold War, to life while also sharing one family’s journey through secrets, lies, and division to love, freedom, and reconciliation.“

You can preorder the book and learn more about it at the following links:
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Katherine Reay is a national bestselling and award-winning author of several novels and one work of nonfiction.

For her fiction, Katherine writes love letters to books, and her novels are saturated with what she calls the “world of books.” They are character driven stories that examine the past as a way to find one’s best way forward. In the words of The Bronte Plot’s Lucy Alling, Katherine writes of “that time when you don’t know where you’ll be, but you can’t stay as you are.”

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And now, without further ado, the cover for The Berlin Letters by Katherine Reay!

Isn’t it beautiful and intriguing?! And I want to drive that darling yellow car.

I am so excited to read Katherine’s latest novel next year!

In the meantime, I will be reading her latest, A Shadow in Moscow, and perhaps reread a few of my Katherine favorites. If you haven’t read any of Katherine’s books yet, I highly recommend them all! They are great for Jane Austen fans, classics fans, book nerds, history buffs, and anyone who genuinely enjoys a well told story.

The Berlin Letters will be released in March 2024. Preorder now!