I loved the storytelling and historical details – this is so beautifully written that it was easy to feel that you were actually on the roof of the Club in the middle of an air raid or being waited on in the salon de printemps at Redlands. So many mysteries to be uncovered, so many secrets had been kept and there is one building full of clues to both stories. This book had me hooked very quickly, I genuinely didn’t want to put it down. This chance encounter leads to a set of events which will change the course of history for both Charlotte and Livy. Livy has lost her memory after a near death experience and finds herself helping at the Mirrormakers’ Club where she once worked.Ī century earlier, Charlotte, in Victorian England, is helped at the scene of an accident by the architect of the Mirrormakers’ Club. I believe that Sophia Tobin has captured the feel of the Blitz in this book – how lives were changed in a split second during the bombings and how people fought to save historical buildings, often putting their own lives at risk to do so. I loved studying history in school and enjoy reading historical fiction. This is the first book written by Sophia Tobin that I have read. A building which holds echoes of past loves and hates, and hides the darkest of secrets in its foundations. Two women, a century apart, united by one place: the Mirrormakers’ Club. Charlotte is helped from the scene of an accident by a man who shows her a building he is working on, and whose kindness unlocks a hope she has long kept buried. London, 1941. Livy makes her way through Blitz-torn London to the Mirrormakers’ Club, the only place that makes her feels safe, where she finds herself drawn into the mystery of a missing diamond, and torn between two men with competing claims on her. A Map of the Damage was published in paperback in April 2020. Thank you to Simon and Schuster UK for a stunning paperback copy – my thoughts are my own and are not influenced by the gift.

I’m thrilled to share my review for one of my favourite time slip historical fiction books.

The Vanishing by Sophia Tobin