Life was difficult enough in 1942 for eighteen-year-old Sadie Gault who, with her family, was living in the Krakow Ghetto. One day it got worse and her parents revealed an escape plan. They escaped from the ghetto and went to the sewers. This was to be their sanctuary. What followed was a time of unimaginable horror and sorrow. One day Ella Stepanek, a young woman of privilege, sees Sadie under the sewer grate. She is unable to walk away and over time she becomes an integral part of Sadie's life. What follows is the harrowing story about the lives of two young women and the perils in their lives.
The setting and the terror of the times are so well depicted in THE WOMAN WITH THE BLUE STAR by Pam Jenoff that readers have a crystal clear view of both. Difficult to imagine is how a friendship between these two young women could develop under these horrid circumstances. Yet, it does happen and both even find love. There is danger and heartbreak throughout the narrative. However, the desire to survive remains strong and there are heroic acts of bravery. The story moves quickly as it races to a surprising conclusion.
Pam Jenoff has crafted an engrossing story in THE WOMAN WITH THE BLUE STAR that is haunting and memorable. Highly recommended.
"This emotional novel is filled with twists, turns, and displays of bravery and love that you will never forget, culminating in an ending that manages to be both surprising and uplifting." —Lisa Scottoline, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Eternal
From the New York Times bestselling author of The Lost Girls of Paris comes a riveting tale of courage and unlikely friendship during World War II.
1942. Sadie Gault is eighteen and living with her parents in the Kraków Ghetto during World War II. When the Nazis liquidate the ghetto, Sadie and her pregnant mother are forced to seek refuge in the perilous tunnels beneath the city. One day Sadie looks up through a grate and sees a girl about her own age buying flowers.
Ella Stepanek is an affluent Polish girl living a life of relative ease with her stepmother, who has developed close alliances with the occupying Germans. While on an errand in the market, she catches a glimpse of something moving beneath a grate in the street. Upon closer inspection, she realizes it’s a girl hiding.
Ella begins to aid Sadie and the two become close, but as the dangers of the war worsen, their lives are set on a collision course that will test them in the face of overwhelming odds. Inspired by incredible true stories, The Woman with the Blue Star is an unforgettable testament to the power of friendship and the extraordinary strength of the human will to survive.
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