All the Broken Places A Novel

Ninety-one-year-old Gretel Fernsby has lived in the same mansion block in London for decades, leading a comfortable life while keeping her dark past hidden. She doesn't speak of her escape from Nazi Germany as a young girl, nor of her post-war years in France with her mother, and especially not of her father, who was a notorious concentration camp commandant. Her carefully constructed, solitary existence is upended when a young family moves into the apartment below her. Gretel forms an unlikely friendship with their young son, Henry, but when she witnesses the violence and domestic abuse occurring in their home, she is forced to confront the haunting echoes of her own history. Faced with the opportunity to intervene and save a young boy—for the second time in her life—Gretel must decide whether to continue hiding her secrets or to finally reveal her identity, whatever the cost.

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