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This book was a very moving, touching, heart breaking and at times quite harrowing. The book is based around true events that happened in Belgium during World War II. It gives you a glimpse of how terrible war really is. Families being torn apart as some go off to fight, while other families loose their lives just because of being Jewish.
My Rating: 5 ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

This was incredible, a tale of loss and friendship at a time when the friendship described was taboo and forbidden by the mores of the day.
It is the time of the occupation of Belgium in 1940.
Hava Daniels is a Jew and Simone Lyon is the daughter of a national war hero.
When their city is invaded the girls flee for their lives together.
What follows is their story of an epic struggle for survival across a war torn land.

Hava Daniels and Simon Lyon are the best of friends but they are friends when the world will not allow a Jew and a Belgian national hero's daughter to BE friends.
It's wartime during the occupation of Belgium and to survive the pair have to run for their lives.
This is their story of their attempt to flee a war torn country and the racism and stigma while atrocities are being committed all around them.
The tale is graphic but needs to be told.

It really was impossible to put the book down, I ended reading the whole thing in one sitting because I was always kept on my toes, I just had to know what would happen next! I had become completely attached to the characters, and when the story was over and I‘d found out what had happened to the characters, I was in tears.

#historicalfiction #ww2

This is the story of two friends in wartime, one a Belgian and the other a Jew.
Though warned to sever her association with Hava Simone loves her friend like a sister and when Belgium is invaded they both are in danger of their lives so flee together.
This is their story and their journey to try to escape the harsh, German regime that is sweeping across their peaceful country.
I loved this so much, I'm a huge fan of wartime fiction.