Author(s): Es, Bart van,
Binding: Paperback,
Date of Publication: 10/01/2019,
Pagination: 288 pages,
Series: N/A,
Imprint: Penguin Books Ltd,
Published By: Penguin Books Ltd,
Book Classification: Biography: historical political & military, Second World War
ISBN13\EAN\SKU: 9780241978726

Description:
WINNER OF THE COSTA BOOK OF THE YEAR 2018

WINNER OF THE SLIGHTLY FOXED BEST FIRST BIOGRAPHY PRIZE 2018

A SUNDAY TIMES PAPERBACK OF THE YEAR 2019

Little Lien wasn't taken from her Jewish parents in the Hague - she was given away in the hope that she might be saved. Hidden and raised by a foster family in the provinces during the Nazi occupation, she survived the war only to find that her real parents had not.

Much later, she fell out with her foster family, and Bart van Es - the grandson of Lien's foster parents - knew he needed to find out why. His account of tracing Lien and telling her story is a searing exploration of two lives and two families. It is a story about love and misunderstanding and about the ways that our most painful experiences - so crucial in defining us - can also be redefined.