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Anna opened the letter with trembling hands. 'My darling, if you're reading this, I haven't managed to unravel my parents' secret. But you can. Will you finish the search for me, find out who they were, and who you really are?' Nazi-occupied Holland, 1944. As soldiers patrol the streets, nursing student Ilse is only just surviving the terrible famine and increasingly violent German occupation. Though exhausted by her demanding work at a hospital far from home, she can't help but notice Levi, the young man with the dark eyes watching the world silently from the abandoned house next door. Then, early one morning, she finds him terrified and trembling with cold on the back doorstep. Levi's Jewish family have been arrested and sent to a concentration camp, their likely fate all too clear. And now he needs her help. So Ilse makes the most dangerous decision of her life, and takes Levi in. Hiding him away in her tiny attic room, he must remain concealed or risk almost certain death. But as the war worsens, keeping Levi a secret becomes ever more difficult, even as their mutual affection grows. And when a local German soldier becomes obsessed with Ilse, they fear their time - and luck - h
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- Author
- Matthews, Imogen
- Publisher
- Bookouture
- Published
- 2022
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781803146348
- Category
- work of fiction
- Subjects
- Fiction
- Rating
- 4.4 / 5 (1,047 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14
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