It took me a while to get into the first few chapters, but after that I was hooked and tore through all three….

This is a disturbing, but absorbing book. At its heart is the deep love of a mother for her son and her determination to protect him at all costs.

This is by no means easy reading. I found I could only manage a few chapters at a time before turning to something more cheerful, but I always came back to it. It’s an important story which happened within living memory and we should never forget the barbarism, but also the courage and instinct for survival, of which humans are capable.