The Young Survivors

WHAT IF EVERYONE YOU LOVED WAS SUDDENLY TAKEN AWAY?

When Germany invades France in the Second World War, the five Laskowski children lose everything: their home, their Jewish community and most devastatingly their parents who are abducted in the night. There is no safe place left for them to evade the Nazis, but they cling together, never certain when the authorities will come for what is left of them.

A stirring debut inspired by the poignant, true story of the author's mother, this moving historical novel conveys the hardship, the uncertainty and the impossible choices the Laskowski children were forced to make to survive the horrors of the Holocaust.

'A poignant and gripping debut. Set against the darkest days of WWII, the novel reminds us that the bonds of family and the power of love can never be extinguished.'
ALYSON RICHMAN, bestselling author of The Lost Wife

’A story that will make you weep, wonder and remember.'
TATIANA DE ROSNAY, author of Sarah’s Key