All The Broken Places

The long-awaited sequel to the phenomenal global bestseller, The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas, this is John Boyne's latest novel for adults.

Ninety-one-year-old Gretel Fernsby has lived in the same mansion block in London for decades. She leads a normal, comfortable life, despite her dark and disturbing past. She doesn't talk about her escape from Germany over seventy years before. She doesn't talk about 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 disturbing, violent argument between Henry's mother and his domineering father, one that threatens Gretel's hard-won, self-contained existence.

Gretel is face with a chance to expiate her guilt, grief and remorse and act to save a young boy-for the second time in her life. If she does, she will be forced to reveal her true identity to the world. This time, she can make a different choice than before-whatever the cost to herself...

All the Broken Places is a devastating, beautiful story about a woman who must confront her own terrible past, and a present in which it is never too late for bravery-or redemption.