Liverpool, 1930s.Miranda Whittaker is a lonely teenage girl who makes a dear friend in Natalie Ellenberg, the daughter of an affectionate Jewish family.For a time, life is good, and the two grow closer than sisters.But it isn’t to last.A tide of anti-Semitism sweeps the streets of Liverpool during a fascist march on the eve of World War Two, and the lives of the two girls are changed forever by a terrible tragedy.Years pass, and the distance between the girls grows. Miranda, still haunted by that tragic day, joins the Red Cross, while Natalie flees to Paris to study art.But she soon disappears after Nazis invade the city . . .Miranda follows the allies as they move through France and then Germany, shaken to her core by the horrors of the concentration camps.She’s determined to find out what happened to her dear friend who took her under her wing all those years ago. But will Miranda ever discover what really happened to Natalie?
