The Hidden

Her heart died in the war – can she breathe new life into it? Dora Simon and Joe O’Cleary live in separate countries | accepting of their twilight years. But their monochrome worlds are abruptly upended by the arrival of Barbara Hummel | who is determined to identify the mysterious woman whose photograph she has found among her mother’s possessions. Forced to confront a time they thought buried in the past | Dora and Joe’s lives unravel – and entwine. For | trapped on the Channel Islands under the German occupation in the Second World War | Dora | a Jewish refugee | had concealed her identity; while Joe | a Catholic priest | kept quite another secret... This is a story of love and betrayal | shame and survival. But can a speck of light diffuse the darkest shadows of war?