Book Description

Theresienstadt Concentration Camp, 1944. ‘I have to go away, my darling. Please, be brave, stay alive, for me.’ Mama’s voice breaks. The little girl tries to stop the forbidden tears from falling, as the train takes her mother, and she is left alone…Berlin, six years later. Hanni Winter glows with pride as she shows her new husband around her first solo photography exhibition. But then she sees Freddy’s reaction. His face white, he can’t take his eyes off a photo of a young girl around four years old. ‘That’s Renny,’ he whispers, ‘my sister, she was taken by the Nazis…’Hoping against hope to find his missing sister, Freddy draws Hanni into a dangerous trip across a war-torn wasteland. She wants so much to support the man she loves, but returning to Theresienstadt, the camp that still haunts her nightmares, is asking the impossible.When she steps through the black and white entrance archway, Hanni’s unbearable memories of the uprooted, trapped prisoners return immediately. And when her arrival brings her face to face with the man she ran from, has every step she made since her escape been in vain? With a precious child to protect, can Hanni find the strength to fight again, or will every hope for her future be lost forever?A heart-wrenching novel about love and courage in the face of terrible odds. Fans of The Alice Network, The Nightingale and The Tattooist of Auschwitz will need a box of tissues handy.