One violin. One curse. One hundred years.

Germany, 1871. Hannah's husband, the violin maker, has produced the perfect violin. It will make their fortune. Hannah is told to look after the violin while her husband finds a buyer. She knows she's been entrusted with a great responsibility.

But a powerful and disreputable businessman betrays her and she loses the violin. Her dreams of a happier life lie shattered.

Distraught, Hannah predicts that all those who, for the following hundred years, play her husband's violin, will die an untimely death...

And so begins the journey of the violin. From the First World War to the rise of Nazism, the Second World War and the Holocaust, through Germany's post-war guilt and the rise and fall of the Berlin Wall, the curse of the violin descends on all those who dare touch its strings.

Who will survive the curse of the violin? Eight stories. Eight people scattered across the century, each cursed by a single violin and its everlasting Song of Sorrow.

Song of Sorrow by R.P.G. Colley.

Part of The Love and War Series, novels set during the 20th century's darkest years:

The Lost Daughter

The White Venus

The Woman on the Train

The Black Maria

My Brother the Enemy

Anastasia

Song of Sorrow

20th Century Historical fiction with heart and drama.

A buried secret and a lifetime of guilt born in the dark heart of Nazi Germany

England, 2001. Elizabeth has always suspected her mother habours a secret from her time as a young woman in Nazi Germany. But her mother, suffering from dementia, is lost to her now.

When Elizabeth stumbles across a Nazi certificate amongst her parent's paperwork, it forces her to question the very foundations of her 1950s childhood and her first love; a childhood, she now realises, was built on lies.

Elizabeth's quest to find the truth leads her to Germany where she's met with a wall of silence. She knows that beyond this wall, is the truth, a truth that exists deep within the dark and twisted soul of Hitler's Germany.

Germany, 1944. 18-year-old Hannah, beautiful and naive, volunteers to work in a home for evacuated children. But Doctor Fick, a loyal Nazi, decrees that there's a better way for Hannah to serve the Fatherland.

Drawn further into the doctor's distorted world, Hannah only realises what's expected of her when it's too late. Confronted with evil, Hannah makes an impossible choice, a choice that will reverberate down the generations...

Historical fiction with heart and drama.