![]() ![]() Now, Gretel faces a similar crossroads to one she encountered long ago. One night, she witnesses a disturbing, violent argument between Henry's beautiful mother and his arrogant father, one that threatens Gretel's hard-won, self-contained existence.Īll The Broken Places moves back and forth in time between Gretel's girlhood in Germany to present-day London as a woman whose life has been haunted by the past. In spite of herself, Gretel can't help but begin a friendship with the little boy, Henry, though his presence brings back memories she would rather forget. Then, a new family moves into the apartment below her. Most of all, she doesn't talk about her father, who was the commandant of one of the Reich's most notorious extermination camps. She doesn't talk about the grim post-war years in France with her mother. She doesn't talk about her escape from Nazi Germany at age 12. She lives a quiet, comfortable life, despite her deeply disturbing, dark past. ![]() Ninety-one-year-old Gretel Fernsby has lived in the same well-to-do mansion block in London for decades. ![]()
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