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Hi Folks,
So I thought I'd drop in and see if anyone can help me with a title for my finished novel. It's a stand-alone book, and while arguably YA, I'm here in this forum because it's my fave one and some of you know me.
Book summary: Set in a small-ish library on Prinsengracht in Amsterdam, in 1944, it's the story of two 16 yos (a boy and a girl) who've been rendered homeless by the occupying forces, and who set out to discover who (and why) the girl's parents were wrongly identified as Jews and deported. It's heavy on action and adventure, very light on romance (the intense adventures preclude anything but preliminary feelings). They become good friends as the book goes on, maybe more after. I have an agent interested in it, but he didn't like the title (which I won't go into here as it's now irrelevant!).
Possible titles:
Or anything else you can think of!!
Many thanks!
Mark
So I thought I'd drop in and see if anyone can help me with a title for my finished novel. It's a stand-alone book, and while arguably YA, I'm here in this forum because it's my fave one and some of you know me.
Book summary: Set in a small-ish library on Prinsengracht in Amsterdam, in 1944, it's the story of two 16 yos (a boy and a girl) who've been rendered homeless by the occupying forces, and who set out to discover who (and why) the girl's parents were wrongly identified as Jews and deported. It's heavy on action and adventure, very light on romance (the intense adventures preclude anything but preliminary feelings). They become good friends as the book goes on, maybe more after. I have an agent interested in it, but he didn't like the title (which I won't go into here as it's now irrelevant!).
Possible titles:
- Comfort of Strangers (because they didn't know each other before each took refuge in the library)
- Nothing More Than Air (from the poem A Terre by Wilfred Owen, I'd use it to show the idea that occupation leaves the occupied with nothing tangible, only air to breathe)
- The Library on Prince Canal (for obvious reasons!)
- The Happy Legion (from the poem Absolution by Siegfried Sassoon, somewhat ironic reference to unity of comrades in war)
- Walking By Water (because of the canals)
Or anything else you can think of!!
Many thanks!
Mark