All The Broken Places

 

                     
All The Broken Places

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Title
All The Broken Places
Author John Boyne
Genre Historical Fiction, Literary Fiction
Format N/A

 

Book Description

All the Broken Places follows Gretel Fernsby, an elderly woman living quietly in London while carrying a devastating secret from her childhood as the daughter of a Nazi commandant. As past and present collide, the novel explores guilt, complicity, memory, and whether redemption is possible after unimaginable moral failure.

 

About Author

John Boyne is an Irish novelist best known for The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas (2006), an internationally acclaimed work of historical fiction that has been translated into dozens of languages and adapted for stage and film. Born in Dublin in 1971, Boyne studied English literature at Trinity College Dublin and creative writing at the University of East Anglia.

Boyne has written extensively for both adults and young readers, producing novels across a wide range of genres including Historical Fiction, Literary Fiction, and Young Adult Fiction. Notable works include The Heart’s Invisible Furies, A History of Loneliness, and The Absolutist. His writing often explores themes of identity, morality, social injustice, and the impact of history on personal lives.

 

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