# All The Broken Places

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- Book: [All The Broken Places](https://www.bookquiver.com/john-boyne/all-the-broken-places) ([All The Broken Places.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/john-boyne/all-the-broken-places.md))
- Authors: [John Boyne](https://www.bookquiver.com/john-boyne)
- Publisher: transworld_digital
- Medium: audio
- Length: 12 h 43 min
- Narrated by: Helen Lloyd, Kristin Atherton
- ISBN: 978-15-2919-129-5
- Published: 2022-09-15
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Audiobook · 12 h 43 min

## Description

Brought to you by Penguin. 1946. 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, not knowing how hard it is to escape your past. Nearly eighty years later, Gretel Fernsby lives a life that is a far cry from her traumatic childhood. When a couple moves into the flat below her in her London mansion block, it should be nothing more than a momentary inconvenience. However, 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. All the Broken Places is John Boyne's masterful sequel to his classic bestseller, The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas , taking a character from that novel on a journey to a place she never goes - the past. Through her story, he explores the aftermath of the war and the effects of a lifetime of guilt. © John Boyne 2022 (P) Penguin Audio 2022