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

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

“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.”

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

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

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

“…one of those sweeping, epic, romantic novels that seems tailor-made for the Oscars and a long summer afternoon.  Except it’s real!”

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

“Crossing the Borders of Time … is a panoramic work of nonfiction that I believe Hemingway would have been proud to put his name on.”

“This is a touching story about the odd collision of fate and will.  A poignantly rendered, impeccably researched tale of a rupture healed by time.”

“As gripping as any fiction… Readers hoping for a happy ending will be rewarded by a conclusion any novelist would have been happy to create.”

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

“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.”

“This is a home run.”

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

“Leslie Maitland’s personal account of her family is a major contribution to history interlaced with a lovely love story.”

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

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

“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.”

“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.”