‘Beautifully told and gripping from first page to last’ <\/b>Sunday Express<\/i>
‘An incredible feat of storytelling… and an old-fashioned page-turner’ <\/b>Donal Ryan
‘Gripping and well-honed…consummately constructed, humming with tension’ <\/b>Guardian<\/i>
‘You can’t prepare yourself for the magnitude and emotional impact of this powerful novel’ <\/b>John Irving
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From the author of the globally bestselling, multi-million-copy classic, The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas, comes its astonishing and powerful sequel.<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n
Gretel Fernsby is a quiet woman leading a quiet life. She doesn’t talk about her escape from Germany seventy years ago or the dark post-war years in France with her mother. Most of all, she doesn’t talk about her father, the commandant of one of the most notorious Nazi concentration camps.<\/p>\n
But when a young family moves into the apartment below her, Gretel can’t help but befriend their little boy, Henry, though his presence brings back painful memories. One night, she witnesses a violent argument between his parents, which threatens to disturb her hard-won peace.<\/p>\n
For the second time in her life, Gretel is given the chance to save a young boy. To do so would allay her guilt, grief and remorse, but it will also force her to reveal her true identity.<\/p>\n
Will she make a different choice this time, whatever the cost to herself?<\/b>
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Praise for John Boyne<\/p>\n
‘A master storyteller’ <\/b>Daily Express
‘<\/b><\/i>One of the best novelists of Ireland’ <\/b>Sunday Express
‘<\/b><\/i>Boyne offers writing of insight and beauty’ <\/b>Observer<\/i>
‘John Boyne is a maestro of hisoritical fiction’ <\/b>John Irving<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
91-year-old Gretel Fernsby has lived in the same mansion block in London for decades. She leads a comfortable, quiet life, despite her dark and disturbing past. She doesn’t talk about her escape from Germany over 70 years before. She doesn’t talk about the post-war years in France with her mother. Most of all, she doesn’t talk about her father, the commandant of one of the most notorious Nazi concentration camps. Then, a young family moves into the apartment below her. In spite of herself, Gretel can’t help but begin a friendship with the little boy, Henry, though his presence brings back memories she would rather forget. One night, she witnesses a violent argument between Henry’s mother and his domineering father, one that threatens Gretel’s hard-won, self-contained existence. Gretel is faced with a chance to expiate her guilt, grief and remorse and act to save a young boy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"product_brand":[],"product_cat":[68],"product_tag":[26844,69,26830],"class_list":{"0":"post-100630","1":"product","2":"type-product","3":"status-publish","5":"product_cat-general-fiction","6":"product_tag-family-life-fiction","7":"product_tag-historical-fiction","8":"product_tag-modern-contemporary-fiction","9":"pa_book_author-boyne-john","10":"pa_cover-paperback","11":"pa_dewey-823-92-edition23","12":"pa_edition-1st-paperback-ed","13":"pa_imprint-penguin-books","14":"pa_language-english","15":"pa_pages-8690","16":"pa_publisher-penguin-books","17":"pa_readership-general-trade-code-k","19":"first","20":"onbackorder","21":"taxable","22":"shipping-taxable","23":"purchasable","24":"product-type-simple"},"yoast_head":"\n