All the Broken Places

A Novel

English language

Published Nov. 23, 2022 by Cengage Gale.

ISBN:
979-8-88578-431-3
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4 stars (2 reviews)

Ninety-one-year-old Gretel Fernsby has lived in the same well-to-do mansion block in London for decades. She lives a quiet, comfortable life, despite her deeply disturbing, dark past. She doesn't talk about her escape from Nazi Germany at age 12. She doesn't talk about the grim post-war years in France with her mother. Most of all, she doesn't talk about her father, who was the commandant of one of the Reich's most notorious extermination camps.

Then, a new 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 disturbing, violent argument between Henry's beautiful mother and his arrogant father, one that threatens Gretel's hard-won, self-contained existence.

All The Broken Places moves back and forth in time between Gretel's girlhood in Germany to present-day …

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All the Broken Places, by John Boyne

4 stars

Gretel Fernsby has a secret, one that she’s been keeping for most of her long life. it torments her. She knows that, if it were to get out, the secret has the potential to ruin her life and her son’s life. In All the Broken Places, John Boyne’s sequel to The Boy in the Striped Pajamas, we find Gretel at the age of 91, still guarding her secret. When a new family moves into the flat below hers, Gretel is pushed to act at the risk of her ability to hide her parentage and her father’s crimes from the world.

Read the rest of my review at abookishtype.wordpress.com/2022/11/22/all-the-broken-places-by-john-boyne/

I received a free copy of this book from the publisher via NetGalley for review consideration.

All the Broken Places, by John Boyne

4 stars

Gretel Fernsby has a secret, one that she’s been keeping for most of her long life. it torments her. She knows that, if it were to get out, the secret has the potential to ruin her life and her son’s life. In All the Broken Places, John Boyne’s sequel to The Boy in the Striped Pajamas, we find Gretel at the age of 91, still guarding her secret. When a new family moves into the flat below hers, Gretel is pushed to act at the risk of her ability to hide her parentage and her father’s crimes from the world...

Read the rest of my review at A Bookish Type: abookishtype.wordpress.com/2022/11/22/all-the-broken-places-by-john-boyne/ . I received a free copy of this book from the publisher via NetGalley, for review consideration.