I found this book to be very frightening because it made me think what it would have been like to have been eighteen years old and living in Belgium at the start of world war two. This was the situation that faced the heroine in the story.
Simone and her friend Hava are two eighteen year old girls from very different backgrounds . Simone is the daughter of an army general who became a hero while fighting for his country in world war one, she is also a Catholic. She lives with her father who gets called away very early in the war and Simone is alone apart from her friend Hava and her family who are Jews.
When the Germans begin to invade Belgium, Simone and Hava try to escape the bombing. Hava's family have gone missing while Hava is looking for Simone so that she will not be alone.
This is a fictional story based on true facts, and it is this that makes the story so realistic and frightening.
Simone and her friend Hava are two eighteen year old girls from very different backgrounds . Simone is the daughter of an army general who became a hero while fighting for his country in world war one, she is also a Catholic. She lives with her father who gets called away very early in the war and Simone is alone apart from her friend Hava and her family who are Jews.
When the Germans begin to invade Belgium, Simone and Hava try to escape the bombing. Hava's family have gone missing while Hava is looking for Simone so that she will not be alone.
This is a fictional story based on true facts, and it is this that makes the story so realistic and frightening.