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if you have not read this, what are you doing? pick it up already!

as a history nerd, i just knew i had to read this. my goodness it was so lovely, i loved the authors writing style.

'I tattooed a number on her arm. She tattooed her name on my heart.'

In 1942, Lale Sokolov arrived in Auschwitz-Birkenau. He was given the job of tattooing the prisoners marked for survival - scratching numbers into his fellow victims' arms in indelible ink to create what would become one of the most potent symbols of the Holocaust.

Waiting in line to be tattooed, terrified and shaking, was a young girl. For Lale - a dandy, a jack-the-lad, a bit of a chancer - it was love at first sight. And he was determined not only to survive himself, but to ensure this woman, Gita, did, too.

So begins one of the most life-affirming, courageous, unforgettable and human stories of the Holocaust: the love story of the tattooist of Auschwitz.

i love romance. i love historical fiction. and this book did what? it put it together!