have seen History Wardrobe many times & have read & loved Lucy Adlington's other books but as this is a novel, this was a different experience! It didn't disappoint! The target audience apparently are young people but I'm 55 & felt it was just as appropriate for me too. Unlike one reviewer who said that the horrors of the holocaust were avoided, I felt the author did the opposite & confronted the horrors by seeing the experience of the horrors through the eyes of this young girl, who could rationalise & deny some of the reality through her immaturity & of course through her passion for fashion & dressmaking. All ultimate defence & survival mechanisms to get her through life in the concentration camp. She tells the story of the heinous context of this girl through clothes & I thought it was very cleverly done. Once or twice I wanted a little more left to my imagination but perhaps that was because I'm 55 & not 16! The book put me in mind of 'Room' by Emma Donahue which was also so cleverly written from the perspective of the entrapped little boy. My heart yearned for these women, those who survived or who were murdered, their children & families & the horror that the author sheds light on we can only begin to try & imagine. Reading their stories in the book & the characterisation of these particular individuals as ever brought the horror closer. I'm so glad to have read this book, it will stay with me always.