Sunday 23 June 2019
East Lawn Marquee kindly supported by Alconbury Weald - Wimpole Estate
Winner of the Costa Book of the Year for The Cut Out Girl, Bart van Es untangles a family’s secret in this haunting memoir.
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Eighteen thousand Jews lived in The Hague in 1940; only two thousand survived the war. Bart always wondered about the fate of the Jewish children his grandparents sheltered, and their estrangement from one, Lientje. What was the girl’s side of the story, Bart wondered? What really happened during the war, and after?
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16:30 - 17:30