This book is about love and friendships and resilience in the face of suffering in the darkest year of the holocaust. The story starts with the main character Ella, who becomes known as Ella who sews. A young girl plucked off the street near her home and sent to Birchwood because she is Jewish. This is her story of the people she meets there all from different walks of life, and of the friendship between her and Rose who is there because of her family's politics. I loved the book and found the story engrossing and beautiful, what I did find off putting was the red ribbon on most of the pages as it made reading some of the words difficult to read.
I really enjoyed this book by C J Carver, from the first page where we meet Connor Baird a young boy of thirteen fed up with watching his baby brother, who ends up taking the wrong route on his bike which leads him to looking in a window and seeing the naked body of a girl who was buried two weeks previously after committing suicide.
Connor is backed against a wall when he sees a man coming towards him and Connor’s body is found at the bottom of a
This is where we meet Dan Forrester ex MI5 officer whose father has just died in Germany of a heart attackand who is Connor’s godfather, and this is where the story really begins. It is a story of deception and conspiracy and the ties that bind.it is a rollercoaster of a thriller whose story lies in the past and is overshadowed by project snowbank.
I really enjoyed this book by C J Carver, from the first page where we meet Connor Baird a young boy of thirteen fed up with watching his baby brother, who ends up taking the wrong route on his bike which leads him to looking in a window and seeing the naked body of a girl who was buried two weeks previously after committing suicide.
Connor is backed against a wall when he sees a man coming towards him and Connor’s body is found at the bottom of a
This is where we meet Dan Forrester ex MI5 officer whose father has just died in Germany of a heart attackand who is Connor’s godfather, and this is where the story really begins. It is a story of deception and conspiracy and the ties that bind.it is a rollercoaster of a thriller whose story lies in the past and is overshadowed by project snowbank.