Sandra (mycatscanread) - reviewed on 8/2/2010 + 174 more book reviews

Helpful Score: 2

This is the story of one woman's struggle to hide her past, and also the story of the woman's daughter who knows nothing of her mother's past, except for a family picture of her mother, herself as a small child and a Nazi officer. Trudy, the daughter, is now a professor of German history and she begins to unravel the truth about her mother.

I loved this book. I read it in one or two sittings, because it's hard to put down. There are so many secrets in Trudy's mother, Anna's, past life in Germany during WWII that Anna has suppressed and will not talk about because of her shame. Trudy is determined to find the truth, no matter how heartbreaking it may be.

This is a very well-written book and I found the characters to be very real and not easily forgotten. It is the author's first book and I gave it four stars.

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