The Repair

A German pilot falls from a white winter sky and into the lives of a French farm family in 1917. The plane is ruined. His shoulder is torn. The war is everywhere. Michel Dumas believes in paying debts, even to an enemy. His daughter, Mathilde, speaks German and becomes the bridge that makes the impossible possible. Together with a dying mechanic, they attempt the rebuild that could send the pilot home and save their own souls in the process.

The Repair is a quiet, high-tension World War I novel about grace under brutal pressure: a family’s courage, a girl’s divided heart, and a soldier who wants to stop killing before it kills him. If you loved the humanity of All the Light We Cannot See and the intimacy of Atonement, this book will live with you.

Book 2 of Prayers in the Air. Read it on its own or as a companion to Sergei and Hans.