The release date for the English version of 'The Storyteller of Casablanca' by
Fiona Valpy is Sep 2021. If you enjoy this novel, it is available for buy as a paperback from Barnes & Noble or Indigo, as an ebook on the Amazon Kindle store, or as an audiobook on Audible.
A little girl is given hope in this moving story from the bestselling author of The Dressmaker's Gift about a strange new city. Can it also provide a second opportunity to a lost soul?
Algeria, 1941. Twelve-year-old Josie and her family have escaped to Casablanca, where they are waiting for safe passage to America, after Nazi control of France. Every sight, sound, and scent in this city full of unique personalities is overpowering to the senses; life here is as intense as the sun. Josie loves being there since it's a world apart from the troubles back home.
Seventy years later, Zoe, another recent immigrant in the seductive port city, is having difficulties adjusting to her new life as an expat in a foreign country, her marriage, and her infant daughter. But Zoe gets a glimpse into the mind of little Josie, who once had the same view of the Atlantic Ocean but knew a very different Casablanca, when she finds a tiny wooden box and a 1940s journal under her daughter's bedroom floorboards.
Soon after, Zoe starts to see her adoptive city from Josie's perspective. Can she, however, find the solace she needs to mend her wounded heart and convert sorrow into hope with the aid of a fresh viewpoint?