by
Francoise Fautrel
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Living with her mother in German occupied France during the Second World War, six year old Clara witnesses many events she can not understand. Why do men in enemy uniform arrive at the door with presents? And why does her mother's behaviour alienate her from the neighbours?
By promising silence when the father she adores returns from war, Clara risks losing both his love and her only chance of freedom. Yet she keeps her vow of silence, enduring isolation and the hardship of life in an orphanage with courage and determination.
This is a poignant evocation of a child trying to deal not only with the horrors of war but the injustice, frustrations and disappointments of a childhood marred by poverty, censure and parental betrayal. Hope is her only ally.