True Story of Hansel and Gretel

<p><b>A poignant and suspenseful retelling of a classic fairy tale set in a war-torn world for readers of <i>The Tattooist of Auschwitz</i> <i>We Were the Lucky Ones</i> and <i>Lilac Girls</i> <p/></b>In the last months of the Nazi occupation of Poland two children are left by their father and stepmother to find safety in a dense forest. Because their real names will reveal their Jewishness they are renamed Hansel and Gretel. They wander in the woods until they are taken in by Magda an eccentric and stubborn old woman called a witch by the nearby villagers. Magda is determined to save them even as a German officer arrives in the village with his own plans for the children. Louise Murphy's haunting novel of journey and survival of redemption and memory powerfully depicts how war is experienced by families and especially by children. <p/></p>