All the Broken Places
A Novel
What's it about
Ever wondered if you could truly escape your past? Gretel Fernsby has spent a lifetime running from a secret so dark it could shatter her world. Now, at ninety-one, a new family moves in below her, and a confrontation with a troubled young boy threatens to unravel everything. This isn't just a story; it's a gripping exploration of complicity, guilt, and the long shadow of history. You'll follow Gretel as she is forced to decide whether to expose her past to save a child or to maintain the silence she has kept for decades. Will her final act be one of cowardice or courage?
Meet the author
John Boyne is the acclaimed Irish author of nineteen novels, including The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas, a modern classic that has sold over eleven million copies worldwide. A masterful storyteller of historical fiction, Boyne revisits the world of his most famous work almost two decades later in All the Broken Places. He explores the enduring themes of guilt, complicity, and atonement through the eyes of a woman whose life was irrevocably shaped by the shadows of the Second World War.
What's it about
Ever wondered if you could truly escape your past? Gretel Fernsby has spent a lifetime running from a secret so dark it could shatter her world. Now, at ninety-one, a new family moves in below her, and a confrontation with a troubled young boy threatens to unravel everything. This isn't just a story; it's a gripping exploration of complicity, guilt, and the long shadow of history. You'll follow Gretel as she is forced to decide whether to expose her past to save a child or to maintain the silence she has kept for decades. Will her final act be one of cowardice or courage?
Meet the author
John Boyne is the acclaimed Irish author of nineteen novels, including The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas, a modern classic that has sold over eleven million copies worldwide. A masterful storyteller of historical fiction, Boyne revisits the world of his most famous work almost two decades later in All the Broken Places. He explores the enduring themes of guilt, complicity, and atonement through the eyes of a woman whose life was irrevocably shaped by the shadows of the Second World War.
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