The Invisible Bridge Av Julie Orringer

<p><b>LONGLISTED FOR THE WOMEN''S PRIZE FOR FICTION</b><br><br>Paris, 1937. Andras L¿, an architecture student, has arrived from Budapest with a scholarship, a single suitcase, and a mysterious letter he has promised to deliver to Clara Morgenstern a young widow living in the city. When Andras meets Clara he is drawn deeply into her extraordinary and secret life, just as Europe''s unfolding tragedy sends them both into a state of terrifying uncertainty.<br><br>From a remote Hungarian village to the grand opera houses of Budapest and Paris, from the despair of Carpathian winter to an unimaginable life in forced labour camps and beyond,<i> The Invisible Bridge</i> tells the story of a marriage tested by disaster and of a family, threatened with annihilation, bound by love and history.<br><b><br>''Phenomenal, enthralling ... You don''t so much read it as live it'' Simon Schama, Financial Times<br><br>''To bring an entire lost world - its sights, its smells, its heartaches, raptures and te