The Girl I Left Behind

Name: The Girl I Left Behind
Brand: Findaway
Availability: InStock
Author: Andie Newton
ISBN: 9781407993171

Author: Andie Newton

Narrator: Julia Barrie

Unabridged: 10 hr 40 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Soundings

Published: 03/01/2021

Categories: Fiction, Historical Fiction

Synopsis

When her childhood best friend shows Ella that you can't always believe what you see, Ella finds herself thrown into the world of the German Resistance. On a dark night in 1941, Claudia is taken by the Gestapo, likely never to be seen again, unless Ella can save her. With the help of the man she loves, Ella must undertake her most dangerous mission yet and infiltrate the Nazi Party. Selling secrets isn't an easy job. In order to find Claudia, Ella must risk not only her life, but the lives of those she cares about. Will Ella be able to leave behind the girl of her youth and step into the shoes of another?

Reviews

Goodreads review by Karren on September 27, 2020

Germany 1941, Ella Strauss lives with her Aunt Bridget in Nuremberg, it's a city consumed by love for the Fuhrer and everyone must support the Nazi Party. Ella attends the National Socialist meetings with her best friend Claudia and ALL teenage German girls are required to be members until they turn......more

Goodreads review by Lana on September 13, 2019

Outwardly, seventeen-year-old Ella Strauss is a good National Socialist. She wears her Youth League uniform, complete with the swastika necklace around her neck, and regularly attends her League classes. But behind this facade is the most passionate resister to the Nazi regime. This is a secret Ella......more

Goodreads review by Sydney on September 24, 2019

A good shop girl can make a person believe anything. Wow! What an incredible book! I was kept on the edge of my seat the whole time, always keeping the title and the above line in my mind. Ella Strauss is a young German woman living with her aunt in Nuremberg after her parents were killed in a car ac......more

Goodreads review by Amy on December 05, 2019

Well, Andie Newton just took my heart and tore it in two! The Girl I Left Behind was such an amazing book and Newton floored me with her excellent writing. Ella is a young girl living with her Aunt in Nuremberg, Germany after her parents' passing. Her parents didn't agree with Hitler's nationalism bu......more

Goodreads review by Bev on September 10, 2019

Many thanks to #NetGalley & Aria Fiction for allowing me to read an advance copy of this debut novel by Andie Newton. What follows is my unbiased review. I was initially drawn to the book by the cover art which included a picture of a Nazi flag and a girl walking through the streets moving towards it......more