It is August 1944, and seventeen-year-old Phee Swensson, a gifted pianist, finds herself at Camp Algona, a prisoner of war camp that opened last spring near her hometown in Iowa. Unexpectedly, she meets one of the German POWs, Sgt. Horst Ebinger, the leader of the prisoner music groups at the camp. Phee is recruited to be the accompanist for Horst’s choir. Soon, the two find common ground in their shared love of music. Their friendship strengthens, and inevitably, they fall in love. (Oh dear!) It’s their secret. Can they keep it? Where will it take them? How far will they go?
My Mother’s Friend
by Sally Jameson Bond
Genre: Historical Fiction | Teen & Young Adult
Winner of the 2023 Global Book Awards Gold Medal
Highly Recommended 5-Star Award of Excellence from the Historical Fiction Company
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What if a seventeen-year-old Iowa girl meets a German prisoner of war, and what if they fall in love? For her debut novel, Sally Jameson Bond draws on her passions for World War II history, music, and her home state of Iowa to weave an endearing story of forbidden love, lies, and loss.
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My Mother’s Son
by Sally Jameson Bond
Genre: Historical Fiction | Teen & Young Adult
Winner of the 2024 Global Book Awards Gold Medal
In 1946, eighteen-year-old Phee Swensson gives birth to a son. In 1993, her daughter Mollie travels to central Minnesota to look for the son her mother gave up for adoption decades earlier. Does she find him?
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