What Only We Know

By Catherine Hokin

Book Overview

A beautiful and gripping wartime story about family secrets and impossible choices in the face of terrible hardship t hat is perfect for fans of The Tattooist of Auschwitz . When Karen Cartwright is unexpectedly called home to nurse her ailing father, she goes with a heavy heart. The house she grew up in feels haunted by the memory of her father's closely guarded secrets about her beautiful mother Elizabeth's tragic death years before. As she packs up the house, Karen discovers an old photograph and a stranger's tattered love letter to her mother postmarked from Germany after the war. During her life, Karen struggled to understand her shy, fearful mother, but now she is realising there was so much more to Elizabeth than she knew. For one thing, her name wasn't even Elizabeth, and her harrowing story begins long before Karen was born. It's 1941 in Nazi-occupied Berlin, and a young Jewish woman called Liese is being forced to wear a yellow star...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1538706407
• ISBN13: 9781538706404
• Release Date: February 2022
• Publisher: Grand Central Publishing
• Length: 368 Pages
• Weight: 0.67 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 5.1" x 7.9"

Customer Reviews

Highly recommend!

I absolutely loved this book! At first it was hard for me to sink into as the time frames flip back and forth between the 1930-1940s & 1970s but once I figured out how the times related to each other it was hard to put this book down - surprise ending -not at all what I’d expected! This is an excellent piece of historical fiction that was obviously well-researched.

Good book

This is a good book and I recommend it. However some aspects are very difficult because the acts done by the Nazis were horrible. It is rewarding to me to learn about what life was like after the war under the communists. It got worse before it got better