All the Broken Places

The past never truly ends. It waits, silent and unyielding, until it is remembered.

Ninety-one-year-old Gretel Fernsby has lived quietly in London for decades, her life a careful construction of distance and silence. But beneath her refined exterior lies a history bound to unspeakable atrocities for she is the sister of the boy who once stood in striped pajamas behind a fence. Haunted by what she witnessed, and by what she chose not to stop, Gretel has spent her life carrying a weight too heavy to name.

When a new family moves into her building, Gretel finds herself confronted by echoes of the past she has long tried to escape. Old wounds resurface, forcing her to reckon with the choices she made as a child and the consequences they cast across generations. Each encounter blurs the line between guilt and innocence, complicity and survival.

John Boyne delivers a haunting meditation on memory, morality, and the shadows we can never quite outrun. All the Broken Places is a story of reckoning, compassion, and the fragile hope that even the most shattered lives might still find a measure of redemption.

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