How can a girl keep hope amid unimaginable suffering?
Winter 1945. The Soviet army have their sights set on punishing Germans for the Nazis’ reign of terror.
Thirteen-year-old Giti and her younger brother, Otto, live with their mother and grandmother. When soldiers arrive and brutally attack the two adult women, killing their grandmother, the farm is set ablaze, and the survivors, are loaded into a crowded train bound for the Soviet Union.
When further tragedy strikes, the two children are left to fend for themselves. Giti is determined to escape, but her plan goes horribly wrong. Otto is trapped on board and is carried away.
Wandering into the forest, the traumatised and mute Giti is rescued by a man who is hiding in the woods.The two strike up an unlikely bond and manage to survive, until Russian soldiers arrive…
As Giti fights for her life, she is determined to be reunited with her brother. But how long will she have to wait, and will the reunion be as happy as she envisaged?
'Exceptional... I couldn’t stop myself from tearing through it to find out what would happen.' -Tracey Dodson Buchanan, author of Toward the Corner of Mercy and Peace
Genre: Historical
Winter 1945. The Soviet army have their sights set on punishing Germans for the Nazis’ reign of terror.
Thirteen-year-old Giti and her younger brother, Otto, live with their mother and grandmother. When soldiers arrive and brutally attack the two adult women, killing their grandmother, the farm is set ablaze, and the survivors, are loaded into a crowded train bound for the Soviet Union.
When further tragedy strikes, the two children are left to fend for themselves. Giti is determined to escape, but her plan goes horribly wrong. Otto is trapped on board and is carried away.
Wandering into the forest, the traumatised and mute Giti is rescued by a man who is hiding in the woods.The two strike up an unlikely bond and manage to survive, until Russian soldiers arrive…
As Giti fights for her life, she is determined to be reunited with her brother. But how long will she have to wait, and will the reunion be as happy as she envisaged?
'Exceptional... I couldn’t stop myself from tearing through it to find out what would happen.' -Tracey Dodson Buchanan, author of Toward the Corner of Mercy and Peace
Genre: Historical
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