Nineteen forty-five. After the fall of the Third Reich, fourteen-year-old Ruth escapes a terrifying encounter with her newly-Communist boss.
The Werwölfe helps her – the child terrorist network set up by Hitler – of which she is a member. She returns to her home, only to find it under attack.
She is given a sheet of music with a code showing the location of hidden diamonds intended to fund the guerrilla war waged by the Werwölfe against the Russian occupation. Ruth flees for her life to the relative safety of West Germany.
Some two decades later, the consequences return to threaten Ruth’s daughter Katya and shatter her hitherto ordered existence.
Facing danger at every turn, Katya must seek out the diamonds and follow her mother’s wishes by returning them to their rightful owners.
There are a lot of content warnings for this book for obvious reasons, so please check them out before diving into this book.
It is now 2024 and each time I read a book about this point in history, I am always transported back to when I first visited Auschwitz and I am always just as shocked reading the details from that time. I believe it is always important to remember this point in history. Hence, we know what extreme hate looks like, what humanity is capable of, what humans are capable of and how we can avoid this ever happening again.
Thank you so much to Anne Lauppe-Dunbar and the team at Tandem Collective UK and Seren Books for running this book tour and read-along!
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