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Gretel Fernsby has a secret, one that she’s been keeping for most of her long life. it torments her. She knows that, if it were to get out, the secret has the potential to ruin her life and her son’s life. In All the Broken Places, John Boyne’s sequel to The Boy in the Striped Pajamas, we find Gretel at the age of 91, still guarding her secret. When a new family moves into the flat below hers, Gretel is pushed to act at the risk of her ability to hide her parentage and her father’s crimes from the world.

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Gretel Fernsby has a secret, one that she’s been keeping for most of her long life. it torments her. She knows that, if it were to get out, the secret has the potential to ruin her life and her son’s life. In All the Broken Places, John Boyne’s sequel to The Boy in the Striped Pajamas, we find Gretel at the age of 91, still guarding her secret. When a new family moves into the flat below hers, Gretel is pushed to act at the risk of her ability to hide her parentage and her father’s crimes from the world...

Read the rest of my review at A Bookish Type: abookishtype.wordpress.com/2022/11/22/all-the-broken-places-by-john-boyne/ . I received a free copy of this book from the publisher via NetGalley, for review consideration.

I wish that all my history classes had been taught by Emma Southon or someone who has her talent for highlighting the absurd and revivifying long-dead people. Even though A Fatal Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum is all about death and the gruesome ways that it found people during the Roman Republic and Roman Empire, Southon’s gift for discussing Roman foibles really brought the historic figures to life in a way that just talking about their triumphs can’t. Books like this one feed my love of history and I plan to recommend it highly to anyone who expresses even the slightest interest in ancient Rome in my proximity...

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