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1946. Three years after a cataclysmic event which tore their lives apart, a mother and daughter flee Poland for Paris, shame and fear at their heels, not knowing how hard it is to escape your past. Nearly eighty years later, Gretel Fernsby lives a life that is a far cry from her traumatic childhood. When a couple moves into the flat below her in her London mansion block, it should be nothing more than a momentary inconvenience. However, the appearance of their nine-year-old son Henry brings back memories she would rather forget. Faced with a choice between her own safety and his, Gretel is taken back to a similar crossroads she encountered long ago. Back then, her complicity dishonoured her life, but to interfere now could risk revealing the secrets she has spent a lifetime protecting.
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All the broken places, John Boyne
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- Released
- 2022
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- Title
- All the broken places
- Language
- English
- Authors
- John Boyne
- Publisher
- Doubleday
- Released
- 2022
- Format
- Paperback
- ISBN10
- 0857528866
- ISBN13
- 9780857528865
- Tags
- Fiction, Historical Themes, Historical Fiction, France, Wars, World War II, England, Secrets, Great Britain, London, Holocaust, Paris, Irish Literature, Guilt, Post-War Era, Emigrants
- First published
- 2022
- Original title
- All the Broken Places
- Rating
- 4.45 out of 5
- Description
- 1946. Three years after a cataclysmic event which tore their lives apart, a mother and daughter flee Poland for Paris, shame and fear at their heels, not knowing how hard it is to escape your past. Nearly eighty years later, Gretel Fernsby lives a life that is a far cry from her traumatic childhood. When a couple moves into the flat below her in her London mansion block, it should be nothing more than a momentary inconvenience. However, the appearance of their nine-year-old son Henry brings back memories she would rather forget. Faced with a choice between her own safety and his, Gretel is taken back to a similar crossroads she encountered long ago. Back then, her complicity dishonoured her life, but to interfere now could risk revealing the secrets she has spent a lifetime protecting.