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MARC 21

All the broken places
Tag	Description
020	$a9780857528865
082	$aAF BOY
100	$aBoyne, John
245	$aAll the broken places
260	$aLondon, UK:$bPenguin,$c2022.
300	$a371 pages,$c23cm.
520	$aNinety-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?
650	$aSecond World War (1939-1945)$vFiction.
650	$aHolocaust$vFiction.
650	$aDomestic abuse$vFiction.