Ninety-one-year-old Gretel Fernsby has lived in t he same well-to-do mansion block in London for decades. She lives a quiet\ , comfortable life\, despite her deeply disturbing\, dark past. She doesn& rsquo\;t talk about her escape from Nazi Germany at age twelve. She doesn& rsquo\;t talk about the grim postwar years in France with her mother. Most of all\, she doesn&rsquo\;t talk about her father\, who was the commandan t of one of the Reich&rsquo\;s most notorious extermination camps.
\nThen\, a new family moves into the apartment below her. In spite of herself\, Gretel can&rsquo\;t help but begin a fri endship with the little boy\, Henry\, though his presence brings back memo ries she would rather forget. One night\, she witnesses a disturbing\, vio lent argument between Henry&rsquo\;s beautiful mother and his arrogant fat her\, one that threatens Gretel&rsquo\;s hard-won\, self-contained existen ce.
\nImmersive\, chilling\, unputdowna ble\, \;All the Broken Places \;moves back and forth in time betwe en Gretel&rsquo\;s girlhood in Germany and present-day London. Here\, Gret el is at a similar crossroads to the one she encountered long ago. Then\, she denied her own complicity\, but now\, faced with a chance to interroga te her guilt\, grief\, and remorse\, she can choose to save a young boy. I f she does\, she will be forced to reveal the secrets she has spent a life time protecting. This time\, she can make a different choice than before&m dash\;whatever the cost to herself.
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