de Rosnay does a great job of twisting and turning both Julia and Sarah's lives together. The journey of Sarah's lost youth and the path she takes to get back to her brother is full of horror that one can't fully fathom.
Sarah thought she was protecting her brother, letting him hide, thinking she would be back in a few minutes. In that horrid moment Sarah locked her brothers fate and what took place after was the idea that only a child could believe. As an adult we know and understand that without food and water we only have days to survive, in Sarah's mind all she could picture was the idea of saving her brother from the hidden space in the wall.
Julia who is assigned to write an article for the 60th anniversary of Vel’ d’Hiv, once a skating ring in France, that held a dark past related to Nazi Germany and the extermination of Jews. During her research she found a path that intertwined her present day life with the past, Sarah's life and a family secret hidden for many generations.
The story of both Sarah and Julia shows the many endurance's one can go through for a family member.
Over all the book was a great read and I was very glad it was turned into a movie. I had finished the book just as the movie hit screens and got the privilege to compare the two. I rarely find many movie scripts that stick to the books plot line, but Gilles Paquet-Brenner (director) did a great job of this. I felt satisfied with the transition from book to movie as very little was changed with the transition.
I found that the story brought more knowledge of WWII that I myself did not know. This part of history, the French participation during WWII, is very rarely talked about. Once I completed the book I decided to research more information of Vel' D'Hiv, wondering if this was just a piece of full fiction. To my surprise Vel D'Hiv was true with a very disturbing past as described in de Rosnay's book.
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