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The Girl Behind the Wall

By: Mandy Robotham
Narrated by: Charlie Norfolk, Hattie Ladbury
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“A poignant, tender story of families and sisters divided by the cruelty of political chance–my heart ached for them on every page." Kate Quinn, New York Times bestselling author of The Alice Network

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A city divided.
When the Berlin Wall goes up, Karin is on the wrong side of the city. Overnight, she’s trapped under Soviet rule in unforgiving East Berlin and separated from her twin sister, Jutta.
Two sisters torn apart.
Karin and Jutta lead parallel lives for years, cut off by the Wall. But Karin finds one reason to keep going: Otto, the man who gives her hope, even amidst the brutal East German regime.
One impossible choice…
When Jutta finds a hidden way through the wall, the twins are reunited. But the Stasi have eyes everywhere, and soon Karin is faced with a terrible decision: to flee to the West and be with her sister, or sacrifice it all to follow her heart?

From the USA Today and internationally bestselling WWII novelist of The German Midwife, The Secret Messenger and The Berlin Girl comes a story set at the dawn of the Cold War in Berlin.

©2021 Mandy Robotham (P)2021 HarperCollins Publishers Limited 20th Century Family Life Fiction Genre Fiction Historical Historical Fiction Romance War & Military Heartfelt

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“A poignant, tender story of families and sisters divided by the cruelty of political chance - my heart ached for them on every page." (Kate Quinn, New York Times best-selling author of The Alice Network)
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It did take me a little while to get into this audiobook but when I did I really enjoyed it. It was captivating and helped me to learn about the difficulties of this time.

Captivating

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loved it. Great read and insightful to bring to the readers the personal experience of people living at the time

Great read

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I really enjoyed this book and it held my interest throughout. A thrilling end kept me awake into the early hours and it was a lovely touch to have the author speak at the end. Well researched this book brings history alive. The narrators do a great job. Thank you for a brilliant audio book.

Great listen.

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really enjoyed the story between the 2 sisters...learnt lots about the wall in Berlin.

great story

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Loved this book. Felt for the sisters who were forced to live apart by the Berlin Wall.

Good characters and story

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