Ike and Kay

An epic love story on the fogbound streets of London reeling from the Blitz. Acclaimed author James MacManus conjures a compelling historical novel based on the true story of the secret love affair at the heart of the Second World War. It is 1942, and war-battered London plays host to the imposing figure of General Ike Eisenhower on a vital mission for the US army. Kay Summersby, an ambulance driver, is chosen to be his aide, a role that will change her life forever. Amid the carnage a secret affair unfolds and rumours of Ike’s infidelity reach across the ocean to Washington and worse yet, to his wife. In a time where scandal and war threaten to break them apart, can Kay hold on to the man she loves?

Highly readable … successfully combines intimacy with an awar eness of the wider picture.‘ - The Sunday Times
AUTHOR: James MacManus is the managing director of the TLS. James’s first screenplay about the life of George Hogg, The Children of the Silk Road, was made into a film starring Jonathan Rhys Meyers. He has since written historical novels Black Venus, Sleep in Peace Tonight and Midnight in Berlin (Duckworth).