The Hard Way Home

The Star and the Shamrock, Book 3

By: Jean Grainger

Narrated by: Siobhan Waring

Length: 7 hrs and 12 mins

Publisher's summary

Dublin 1950

Liesl Bannon has never felt like she was truly at home anywhere, not since her mother placed her and her brother Erich on the last Kindertransport out of Berlin in 1939. She’d been so much more fortunate than most Jews, saved from the horrors of the Nazi regime. Being adopted by Elizabeth and Daniel Lieber meant she and Erich spent the war in Northern Ireland, safe and loved, but Liesl always knew something was missing.

When an opportunity to return to Berlin to represent her university presents itself, she is so torn. Should she go back to the city that rejected her and her family, would it be too harrowing, or would it feel like home?

In Berlin, a chance encounter with an old family friend sparked emotions for Liesl that she’d suppressed since she was a child. She finds herself desperately wanting to go back to those carefree days before Hitler, when life made sense, but why was her family so set against her return? Was it because they were worried about her as they claimed, or was there a darker, more sinister reason?

The Hard Way Home is the heart wrenching third book in the best-selling Star and the Shamrock series.

©2022 Gold Harp Media (P)2023 Jean Grainger

Fantastic series

Great character development and vivid words to describe the scenes. Liked that the book series started at the beginning of WWII and proceeded forward to have characters become adults.

Another masterpiece! Thank You Jean!

Gene Grainger doesn’t disappoint again loved every minute! Perfect addition to the series can’t wait for the next one !

Excellent story

My eyes were opened to more of the brutal ways of the war. But love, understanding and hope is the overwhelming story. Loved this book.

Anti-semitism In Ireland

This is a great 3rd book of a series. Liesl finds first love in college, but is devastated by his family’s anti-semitism and his lack of support. She travels to Berlin for a debate competition and discovers a childhood friend. The story is full of grown-up choices of finding who you really are and where home is found. Full of love and support. While listening, tears streamed down my face as we flew home fro NY.

Great story

I joyed the story line. And the education ideas. The description of Ireland and the ocean.

Beautiful ,Thoughtful and Heartbreaking

I will never stop being shocked at all that I still don’t know about World War 2 and I’ve read many many books about it throughout my life. This was something I really knew very little about, the Kinder Transport. This author researched this so well, and wrote it so compassionately about how these poor little children must’ve felt and how lost and scared they were. These books were so good, I could barely stop listening and the narration could not have been better.

Hard way home

Enjoy it, because I fell in love with the characters in the first two books. The 3 rd book was very predictable and at times repetitive. Price of the book was very high thanks for the credits