All The Broken Places
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    Sep-2022 (Hardcover)
    Nov-2023 (Paperback)
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  • Main Genre:
    Historical
  • Pages:
    400
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From the New York Times bestselling author John Boyne, a devastating, beautiful story about a woman who must confront the sins of her own terrible past, and a present in which it is never too late for bravery

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 London as a woman whose life has been haunted by the past.  Now, Gretel faces a similar crossroads to one she encountered long ago. Back then, she denied her own complicity, but now, faced with a chance to interrogate her guilt, grief and remorse, she can choose  to save a young boy. If she does, she will be forced to reveal the secrets she has spent a lifetime protecting. This time, she can make a different choice than before -- whatever the cost to herself…. 
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    •  
    • Dec-2023
    • Penguin
    • Trade Paperback
    • ISBN: 0593653440
    • ISBN13: 9780593653449
    •  
    • Jul-2023
    • Transworld (UK)
    • Paperback
    • ISBN: 1529176131
    • ISBN13: 9781529176131
    • First Edition
    • Sep-2022
    • Doubleday
    • Hardcover
    • ISBN: 0857528858
    • ISBN13: 9780857528858
    •  
    • Dec-2022
    • Penguin
    • Hardcover
    • ISBN: 0593653068
    • ISBN13: 9780593653067
    •  
    • Nov-2022
    • Penguin
    • eBook
    • ISBN: 0593653076
    • ISBN13: 9780593653074
    •  
    • Nov-2022
    • Pamela Dorman Books
    • eBook (Kindle)
    •  
    • Nov-2022
    • Transworld (UK)
    • eBook
    • ISBN: 1473599849
    • ISBN13: 9781473599840
    •  
    • Dec-2022
    • Bond Street Books
    • eBook
    • ISBN: 0385688067
    • ISBN13: 9780385688062
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    • Dec-2022
    • Thorndike Press Large Print
    • Hardcover
    • Large Print
    • Library Binding



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