The Year We Escaped

Release Date 4 June

For fans of Jackie French and Katrina Nannestad, The Year We Escaped is a heart-stopping and remarkable World War II story by talented author Suzanne Leal.

Nick's Review

This book is beautifully written and is holding my children spellbound. They have never heard about children who were part of the great war, or the plight of those who were Jewish and persecuted by the Nazi's at the time. 

There are hundreds of questions, wide eyes and lots to learn, along with little red faces - angry at Hitler's thugs who they have nicknamed "the Nasty Party"....

Overview

Europe, 1940

With war on their doorstep, German classmates Klara and Rachel, and French brothers Lucien and Paul, are forced to leave their homes. They are taken to Gurs, a French detention camp in the south-west of France. It's a crowded place, with little comfort and even less food.

When Klara and Rachel are promised safe refuge in a remote French village, Lucien and Paul are anxious to join them — and will risk their own lives to get there.

Filled with adventure, danger and intrigue, this is the story of four unlikely friends desperate to escape from a war that keeps coming closer.