The Wishing Shelf Awards has named Ella’s War a 2024 winner in adult fiction.
Ella’s War has received Publisher Weekly’s BookLife Prize with an overall rating of 9 out of 10 on booklife.com, which calls the book “a truly stellar novel.”
Reader’s Favorite calls Ella’s War “a truly exceptional piece of literature” and gives it five out of five stars, their reviewer saying, “The writing is wonderful and the emotional depth transcends the page. I would give this book a whole bucket of stars if I could.”
The Hollywood Book Festival has named Ella’s War the first honorable mention in its 2023 awards.
The Historical Novel Society had recommended Ella’s War, noting in its review that the difficult decisions that Ella makes on the home front in WWII “arise from…circumstances [that] are universally understandable.”
The Wishing Shelf book awards announced Ella’s War as a 2023 Best Book Cover finalist.