When The World Was Ours
A book about finding hope in the darkest of times
by Liz Kessler
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Pub Date 1 Mar 2021 | Archive Date 17 Jan 2021
Simon and Schuster UK Children's | Simon & Schuster Children's UK
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Description
Three friends. Two sides. One memory.
Vienna. 1936.
Three young friends – Leo, Elsa and Max – spend a perfect day together, unaware that around them Europe is descending into a growing darkness, and that events soon mean that they will be cruelly ripped apart from each other. With their lives taking them across Europe – to Germany, England, Prague and Poland – will they ever find their way back to each other? Will they want to?
Inspired by a true story, WHEN THE WORLD WAS OURS is an extraordinary novel that is as powerful as it is heartbreaking, and shows how the bonds of love, family and friendship allow glimmers of hope to flourish, even in the most hopeless of times.
'When The World Was Ours is Liz's masterpiece . . . an instant classic' Anthony McGowan, winner of the 2020 CILIP Carnegie Medal
Available Editions
| EDITION | Other Format |
| ISBN | 9781471196805 |
| PRICE | £12.99 (GBP) |
| PAGES | 320 |
Featured Reviews
Educator 539848
Without a doubt, one of the best books I have read this year.
The book is about three friends, following their stories from before WWII until the present day. The friends end up taking very different paths, often not through choice but never forget the friendship they shared as young children. The characters and their stories will stay with me for a very long time.
I read this book in one sitting and then immediately went back to re-read bits. Sometimes you look forward to a book so much you build it up and almost set yourself up for a disappointment but not this one. It is beautifully written, desperately sad and shocking, both because of events described during the war but also because of the way that the final chapter relates it back to the present day.
Just go and read it.
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