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

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

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

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

“The stuff of novels and film.”

“This is a home run.”

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

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

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

“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.”

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

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

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

“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.”

“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.”

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

“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.”

“This is a fascinating story of thwarted love, longing, and the travails of one woman and one family within the broader context of war and persecution.”

“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.”

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