As fourteen-year-old Ella begins her first day at work she steps into a world of silks, seams, scissors, pins, hems and trimmings. She is a dressmaker, but this is no ordinary sewing workshop. Hers are no ordinary clients.
Ella has joined the seamstresses of Birkenau-Auschwitz, as readers may recognise it. Every dress she makes could mean the difference between life and death. And this place is all about survival.
Lucy Adlington is a fashion historian and a wonderful writer.
“ Lucy Adlington's read is a tear jerker. Bookworms are calling it a cross between 'The Diary of Anne Frank' and 'The Boy in the Striped Pyjama' and it's a reading list essential” ― Maximum Pop
This book explores the female prisoners in the concentration camp, and consequently the female guards. I came across this book completely by chance. I am glad I read it as it gave another perspective.
Ella has joined the seamstresses of Birkenau-Auschwitz, as readers may recognise it. Every dress she makes could mean the difference between life and death. And this place is all about survival.
Lucy Adlington is a fashion historian and a wonderful writer.
“ Lucy Adlington's read is a tear jerker. Bookworms are calling it a cross between 'The Diary of Anne Frank' and 'The Boy in the Striped Pyjama' and it's a reading list essential” ― Maximum Pop
This book explores the female prisoners in the concentration camp, and consequently the female guards. I came across this book completely by chance. I am glad I read it as it gave another perspective.