West End Book Club: All the Broken Places by John Boyne (West End)

Join Library Trustee Gemma Tansey for the book discussion of All the Broken Places by John Boyne. All the Broken Places is about how three years after a cataclysmic event which tore their lives apart, a mother and daughter flee Poland for Paris, shame and fear at their heels. Eighty years later, Gretel Fernsby lives a life that is a far cry from her traumatic childhood. A new couple moves into the flat below hers in her London apartment, and the appearance of their nine-year-old son Henry brings back memories she would rather forget. Faced with a choice between her own safety and his, Gretel is taken back to a similar crossroads she encountered long ago. Back then, her complicity dishonoured her life, but to interfere now could risk revealing the secrets she has spent a lifetime protecting.