All the Broken Places
- author
- John Boyne
- Narrator
- Helen Lloyd & Kristin Atherton
- Length
- 12 hours 30 minutes
- Publisher
- Penguin Random House
- Catalogue #
- 16149
- Categories
- General Fiction
- Ratings
- 0 star rating
1946. Three years after a cataclysmic event which tore their lives apart, a mother and daughter flee Poland for Paris, shame, and fear at their heels, not knowing how hard it is to escape your past.
Nearly eighty years later, Gretel Fernsby lives a life that is a far cry from her traumatic childhood. When a couple moves into the flat below her in her London mansion block, it should be nothing more than a momentary inconvenience. However, the appearance of their nine-year-old son Henry brings back memories she would rather forget.
Faced with a choice between her own safety and his, Gretel is taken back to a similar crossroads she encountered long ago. Back then, her complicity dishonoured her life, but to interfere now could risk revealing the secrets she has spent a lifetime protecting.