All the broken places
Boyne, John, 1971-2022
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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. All the Broken Places is John Boyne's masterful sequel to his classic bestseller, The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas, taking a character from that novel on a journey to a place she never goes - the past. Through her story, he explores the aftermath of the war and the effects of a lifetime of guilt.
Main title:
All the broken places / John Boyne.
Author:
Boyne, John, 1971-, author
Work:
Imprint:
London : Doubleday, 2022.
Collation:
371 pages ; 24 cm.
Series title:
Notes:
The sequel to The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas.
ISBN:
97808575288650857528866
Dewey class:
823.92
Language:
English
Subject:
Auschwitz (Concentration camp) -- FictionApartment dwellers -- FictionChildren of Nazis -- FictionFamily violence -- FictionFriendship -- FictionGuilt -- FictionIntergenerational relations -- FictionNeighbors -- FictionPolish -- England -- London -- FictionSecrecy -- FictionLondon (England) -- FictionDomestic fictionHistorical fictionPsychological fictionWar fiction
BRN:
136525