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I live with Mama and Papa in Munich. Food is still rationed, though the war ended over ten years ago.
My boyfriend is Jewish. I have to hide this from my parents.
I think they are hiding something from me, too. Letters arrive every year on my birthday, but they are not addressed to me. They are for a girl named Kasia. This is her story.
'Powerful and harrowing' Mail on Sunday 'A haunting beauty of a novel' Irish Times
Vanessa Curtis is an award-winning author of books for teens and children, including Zelah Green which won the Manchester Children's Book Prize and was shortlisted for the Waterstones Children's Book Prize, and The Earth is Singing, winner of the Young Quills Historical Association Award, shortlisted for Peters Books of the Year Award and longlisted for the Carnegie Medal. She was also one of the co-founders of The Virginia Woolf Society of Great Britain and is the author of two biographies on Virginia Woolf. Vanessa also reviews books for the national newspapers and runs The Curtis Children's Literary Consultancy, specialising in YA fiction.
This book just blew me away when I finished reading it.
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Go to Usborne Quicklinks for links to websites where you can find out more about the background for this book, which is based on events that took place in Nazi Germany, and Jewish persecution and life in Germany at that time.