Title: Almost AutumnAuthor: Marianne Kaurin
Publisher: January 3rd 2017
Genre: Historical Fiction, YA, WWII
Page Count:278
Format: Hardcover
My Rating: ★ ★ ★ ★
Goodreads Summary:
Everything starts this autumn.
It’s October 1942, in Oslo, Norway. Fifteen-year-old Ilse Stern is waiting to meet boy-next-door Hermann Rod for their first date. She was beginning to think he’d never ask her; she’s had a crush on him for as long as she can remember.
But Hermann won’t be able to make it tonight. What Ilse doesn’t know is that Hermann is secretly working in the Resistance, helping Norwegian Jews flee the country to escape the Nazis. The work is exhausting and unpredictable, full of late nights and code words and lies to Hermann’s parents, to his boss…to Ilse.
And as life under German occupation becomes even more difficult, particularly for Jewish families like the Sterns, the choices made become more important by the hour: To speak up or to look away? To stay or to flee? To act now or wait one more day?
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My Review:
"What now?
We carry on. We risk our lives, but damn it we carry on regardless."
