Maitland - Crossing the Borders of Time

Maitland turns her meticulous eye as a former New York Times investigative reporter upon the facts of her mothers love life Theres a beautiful story here.

Washington Post

Schindlers List meets Casablanca in this tale of a daughters epic search for her mothers prewar beaufifty years later.

Good Housekeeping

Sometimes the truth is not stranger than fiction but more compelling than fiction, and thats the case here Any reader who likes exciting World War II drama and a good love story will be drawn to this book. Well-written and captivating, its story will stay with readers well after the book is finished.

Library Journal (starred review)

How the small flame of an undying love can illuminate the darkness of a tragic era. This elegantly told story is for everyone.

J AMES C ARROLL , New York Times best-selling author of
Jerusalem, Jerusalem and Constantines Sword

If you are looking for a real-life love story filled with heartfelt romance, adventure, the drama of war, and the aftermath of a life lived when this love doesnt work out, then Crossing the Borders of Time will bewitch you. There is no fictionalized account of long-lost love that could be as compelling as this valentine to Leslie Maitlands parents and the sad situations that threatened to ruin their moral compasses throughout their entire lives. Simply put, this is an unforgettable tale.

Bookreporter

Touching a poignantly rendered, impeccably researched tale of a rupture healed by time.

Kirkus Reviews

Maitlands personal account of her family is a major contribution to history interlaced with a lovely love story.

Arts and Leisure News

This is a fascinating story of thwarted love, longing, and the travails of one woman and one family within the broader context of war and persecution. Maitland includes a treasury of old family photographs and documents to enhance this incredible story.

Booklist (starred review)

A mesmerizing memoir of one familys shattering experience during World War II. Its a tale at once heartbreaking and uplifting, in which the story of a young womans loverevealed by her own daughtertriumphs over the tragedy of world events.

L INDA F AIRSTEIN , New York Times best-selling author of Silent Mercy

An absorbing, true account of romance, resilience, and survival.

Daily Beast

Unrelenting in her quest for understanding, Maitland is a brilliant reporter who knows what questions to ask and how to get her story. [Her] depiction of evolving German policy against the Jews is written with the precision of a historian and the vividness of a reporter The result is a work that moves one to tears and anger. This is a work that I could not put down and scarcely wanted to end.

M ICHAEL B ERENBAUM , former director of the Holocaust
Research Institute at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum

Written in a gripping and compelling style Leslie Maitland, an investigative reporter, opens her mothers life with penetrating research to track, confront, question, and successfully find her mothers lost love and eventually reunite them.

Jewish Book World

This is a worthy testament to how war and displacement conspire against personal happiness.

Publishers Weekly

As gripping as any fiction The meticulously researched history underscores one familys saga of persecution and survival Readers hoping for a happy ending will be rewarded by a conclusion any novelist would have been happy to create.

Shelf Awareness for Readers

Driven by an extraordinarily close relationship between Holocaust escapee mother and journalist daughter, this is not only original social history of a high order, but one of the most poignant love-lost, love-found stories I have ever read, with an ending that Hollywood wouldnt dare.

R OBERT M ACNEIL , journalist and author

A panoramic work of nonfiction that I believe Hemingway would have been proud to put his name on. [It] has the power of War and Peace, the movie Casablanca, and the romanticism of Doctor Zhivagoreading like a novel but with the resonance of reality.

D AVID M. K INCHEN , Huntington News

This is a true story. That simple statement will seem remarkable to you once you have read this book. A love affair thwarted by war, distance, and a disapproving family became the defining story of Leslie Maitlands mothers life, and by extension, her own.

C OKIE R OBERTS , NPR and ABC News analyst and author

One of those sweeping, epic, romantic novels that seems tailor-made for the Oscars and a long summer afternoon. Except its real! Leslie Maitland has the rare ability to bring history, adventure, and love alive. The fact that this story captures her mothers life gives it a wonderful added poignancy. I wish I could sit in on the many delighted book groups that will devour this beautiful book.

B RUCE F EILER , best-selling author of Walking the Bible and Abraham

Stunning I was swept away by the mystery, the love, and the journey. An incredible and utterly engrossing story!

R OXANNE C OADY , RJ Julia.com

This true story deals with romance, war, anti-Semitism, search, adventure, history, family, and travel A narrative that is both informative and electrifying. History and the family saga combine in an informative and heartwarming tale that grips the readers attention.

Jewish Journal

The stuff of novels and film Leslie Maitland not only limns an improbable love story but recounts the saga of her mother, who endured a harrowing flight from the Nazis that took her through Casablanca, Jamaica, and Mexico to internment in Cuba before finding a fresh start in New York.

S TEVE G ODDARD , History Wire.com

Had Leslie Maitland set out to write a gripping romance novel, she hardly could have exceeded this fascinating account of her mothers life. Crossing the Borders of Time is more beautiful than a novel because of the power of its true story and the richness with which it is told This is page-turning stuff so well-written it seems like a good noveland is equally hard to put down.

American Jewish World

Gripping and compelling Leslie Maitland writes with a clear, candid journalists eye She closes this noteworthy read with poetic understanding and gentleness.

Jewish Book Council

It is a story of enduring love and second chances, and also a story of missed opportunities and time that can never be recaptured.

Sun Sentinel

Maitlands account of the familys efforts to survive in Nazi-occupied France is riveting its strength comes through its detailed telling of the profound impact of war on one womans family.

Jweekly

Through meticulous research and lyrical telling, Maitland investigates her familys years-long journeying and resettling to stay ahead of Nazi persecution The knock on the door that first pulled us into Maitlands story leads to improbable and intriguing contemporary connections, some built on secrets not yet revealed. The separations of war reverberate still.

Washington Independent Review of Books