Dreams of Silver

Written by Mina Baites

Narrated by Jane Oppenheimer

A single treasured keepsake links one unforgettable family across continents in this enthralling saga by Mina Baites, the author of The Silver Music Box.

London, 1963. I dream about my sister almost every night.

Lilian Morrison has one memento of her beloved sister, Emma: a battered silver music box. A family heirloom that was passed down through two world wars, the box was the key to Lilian’s recent, joyous reunion with the surviving members of her birth family, whom she lost many years earlier when she and her sister fled Hitler’s Germany on the Kindertransport. Now Lilian is compelled to investigate Emma’s final days after the girls were shipped to separate foster families in Britain and the time before Emma was killed in the London Blitz.

In London, as she searches for clues to retrace the past, Lilian finds that the anguish of war still reverberates after two decades. In Cape Town, her grandmother courageously protects innocent victims of violence, and in Dublin, a gifted woodworker creates a music box that is strangely similar to the one that Lilian owns. Separate lives will intertwine on a path of healing and hope as the hazy secrets of the past finally come to light.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Brilliance Audio
• Translator: Alison Layland
• Release date: Nov 13, 2018
• ISBN: 9781543689884

Mina Baites

Mina Baites has written stories for as long as she has been able to think, and she loves transporting her readers to new, mysterious worlds. She has published a number of successful contemporary romances under the pseudonym Anna Levin. She also cowrites historical novels set in her beloved Germany as one half of the pseudonymous author Gerit Bertram. Mina lives with her family in northern Germany and loves traveling.

Reviews for Dreams of Silver

[Jeanetta du Preez · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

Again a beautifully written story and yet again the apartheid in South Africa can not be compared to the horror of the Nazis. I can see how someone coming through such horrors experience the state in South Africa at that stage so intense though.
We never experienced the same as children from that period in South Africa and treated our " servants" as human beings.