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All the broken places

All the broken places
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400330957 AF BOY
Adult General Fiction   Gunnedah . . Available .  
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ISBN 9780857528865
Name Boyne, John
Title All the broken places
Published London, UK: Penguin, 2022.
Description 371 pages, 23cm.
Summary Ninety-one-year-old Gretel Fernsby has lived in the same mansion block in London for decades. She leads a comfortable, quiet life, despite her dark and disturbing past. She doesn't talk about her escape from Germany over seventy years before. She doesn't talk about the post-war years in France with her mother. Most of all, she doesn't talk about her father, the commandant of one of the most notorious Nazi concentration camps. Then, a young family moves into the apartment below her. In spite of herself, Gretel can't help but begin a friendship with the little boy, Henry, though his presence brings back memories she would rather forget. One night, she witnesses a violent argument between Henry's mother and his domineering father, one that threatens Gretel's hard-won, self-contained existence. Gretel is faced with a chance to expiate her guilt, grief and remorse and act to save a young boy - for the second time in her life. But to do so, she will be forced to reveal her true identity to the world. Will she make a different choice this time, whatever the cost to herself?
Subjects Second World War (1939-1945) -- Fiction
Holocaust -- Fiction
Domestic abuse -- Fiction
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