“This is a true story.  That simple statement will seem remarkable to you once you have read this book.”

“Maitland has researched this story exhaustively and told it with great sensitivity, in a beautifully evocative style…”

“A beautiful story.”

“Leslie Maitland’s nonfiction account of her mother’s life Crossing the Borders of Time will keep you glued to its pages….Romantic novels don’t get as good as this book.”

“This true story, written in a gripping and compelling style, reads like a novel.”

“This is a poetic story of undying love full of insight and honesty that truly crosses the borders of time.”

“…the listener may forget this is a work of nonfiction—so engrossing is its story and so vividly is it told.”

“Crossing the Borders of Time will bewitch you…There is no fictionalized account of long-lost love that could be as compelling.”

“This riveting memoir was an unusual survival story of both loss and love… The ending warms the reader’s heart, and I highly recommend this true story.”

“Schindler’s List meets Casablanca in this tale of a daughter’s epic search for her mother’s prewar beau — 50 years later.”

“…one of the most poignant love-lost, love-found stories I have ever read, with an ending that Hollywood wouldn’t dare.”

“Leslie Maitland’s Crossing the Borders of Time... It’s a compelling, epic, World War II story of love lost but not forgotten and the power of memories.”

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

“[Leslie Maitland’s] book is stunning…. I was swept away by the mystery, the love, and the journey. An incredible and utterly engrossing story!”

“The knock on the door that first pulled us into Maitland’s story leads to improbable and intriguing contemporary connections, some built on secrets not yet revealed. … I wait for Maitland’s sequel.”

“Maitland is a brilliant reporter who knows what questions to ask and how to get her story. Written with the precision of a historian, the result is a work I could not put down and scarcely wanted to end.”

“Sometimes the truth is not ‘stranger than fiction’ but more compelling than fiction, and that’s the case here…. Well written and captivating, its story will stay with readers well after the book is finished.”

“An absorbing true account of romance, resilience, and survival…”

“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.”

“Informative and electrifying…grips the reader’s attention.”