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The Plum Tree

by Ellen Marie Wiseman (Goodreads Author)

4.04 of 5 stars 4.04 · rating details · 557 ratings · 142 reviews

A deeply moving and masterfully written story of human resilience and enduring love, The Plum Tree follows a young German woman through the chaos of World War II and its aftermath.

“Bloom where you’re planted,” is the advice Christine Bolz receives from her beloved Oma. But seventeen-year-old domestic Christine knows there is a whole world waiting beyond her small German vi...more

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Published December 25th 2012 by Kensington (first published December 24th 2012)

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Aug 18, 2012 Debra Battista rated it 5 of 5 stars

I had the honor to read the original version of The Plum Tree before my dear friend Ellen even had an agent!!!! When I started reading it, I could not put it down. Although it takes place in war torn Germany during the reign of Hitler, the story is more about the German people, their diversity, their strength , their conviction and their perseverance. I believe that this book will appeal to readers of so many genres including historical and romance. It is an absolutely fabulous read and especial...more

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Sep 26, 2012 Lisa Orr rated it 5 of 5 stars

Ellen Marie Wiseman has a striking ability to describe in telling details, using all the senses. She doesn't just show us German villages burning after Allied bombings, she tells us the taste of the smoke and ashes. The Plum Tree is also very strong on describing emotions, which is vital in a book on the emotional trauma of war. There was a lot of history here that I didn't know, and I doubt many other American readers would be familiar with. We have indeed been taught the history of the victor,...more

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Aug 18, 2012 Courtney rated it 5 of 5 stars

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"Christine, I want you to understand something. War makes perpetrators of some, criminals of others, and victims of everyone. Not all of the soldiers on the front are fighting for Hitler and his ideals. Just because a soldier is in the battle, doesn't mean that he believes in the war."

The Plum Tree is a story of a young girl (Christine) and her family during WWII and the Nazi occupation of Germany. Beyond that, it is a tale of love and survival, of loss and strength, and a tale of hope. It is...more "Christine, I want you to understand something. War makes perpetrators of some, criminals of others, and victims of everyone. Not all of the soldiers on the front are fighting for Hitler and his ideals. Just because a soldier is in the battle, doesn't mean that he believes in the war."

The Plum Tree is a story of a young girl (Christine) and her family during WWII and the Nazi occupation of Germany. Beyond that, it is a tale of love and survival, of loss and strength, and a tale of hope. It is historical fiction, woven with a tale of romance between a young German girl and a young German Jew at the height of the terror in Nazi-occupied Germany.

We have all learned about WWII, Nazi Germany, the concentration camps, and the horrors that befell Jews in Eastern Europe during Hitler's reign; however, this book brought this rich and terrifying history to life through the eyes of a young German girl and her family in ways that I had not experienced before. This is the first book that I have read from a German viewpoint rather than that of a concentration-camp or German Jew's perspective. And the story was chilling.

Christine is a sympathetic protagonist who was easy to identify with. When the book opens, she is only 17 and is in love with a young Jewish boy from a well-to-do family. Predictably (although I don't mean this as a slight), their world changes when the war begins and Jewish families are targeted by Hitler and his men.

We follow Christine through the changes in her hometown (including air raids, bombings, rationing of food, destruction, Jewish families being whisked away in the night to work campus, street shootings, and unspeakable violence). We often are not sure what has come of Christine's father (who was sent off to fight in the army) or Isaac, Christine's love who is likely sent away for being Jewish.

Ellen Marie Wiseman writes this novel from personal experience- as a first generation German-American, Ellen Marie spent much of her life between Germany and America, and heard many tales from family members who lived during this time and experienced these unspeakable horrors. This gives the novel a freshness and a truthfulness that is easy to see.

To say you loved this book feels wrong- it is haunting and heartbreaking and horrific- but it is also a lovely tale of young love and the heroism and spirit of a young German girl living in an unspeakably cruel world in a horrible period in Germany's history. That being said, this book is certainly a new favorite of mine and will be cherished forever. Although I thought I knew a great deal about this time period, WWII and Nazi-Occupied Germany, I was wrong. The perspective and the details from this story will undoubtedly stay with me forever.

The copy I read was an ARC which I was fortunate to be able to borrow, and I look forward to getting my hands on my own personal copy when The Plum Tree hits the shelves on December 24!(less)

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Dec 24, 2012 Amy rated it 5 of 5 stars

The Plum Tree captured my heart and I carried it around until I was finished reading, stealing moments whenever I could just to get in another page or two or ten.

Not only was the WWII, the German landscape, the family characterizations, and the historical essence incredibly vivid -- but it was well-balanced. I didn't feel too overwhelmed by the sadness or by the love story. I thought Wiseman's writing was eloquent, literary and yet completely accessible to everyone.

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Apr 03, 2013 Melanie Adkins rated it 5 of 5 stars

Christine Bolz is a seventeen year old girl from a small village in Germany. She comes from a poor but loving and supportive family. Isaac Bauerman is the son of a wealthy attorney and Jewish. On this day, Isaac tells Christine he loves her and she says the same to him. They make plans to spend time together and explore their future. Hitler had other ideas and plans. Changes came quickly to Germany and the small village. Isaac and Christine could no longer see each other. Worried for the Bauerma...more

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Mar 28, 2013 Jeannette Katzir rated it 4 of 5 stars

The Plum Tree by Ellen Marie Wiseman - 4 stars
This book was fascinating because it's a somewhat sympathetic (albeit slightly irksome) look at WW2 through the eyes of a German family. The heroin is Christine, a poor German girl who falls madly in love with a rich Jewish boy. The war comes, and we see what happened to the Germans, be they Hitler supporters or not.
Christine sadly learns that her love, Isaac, has been taken, and we watch as her life and those of the German populace around her begin...more

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Mar 18, 2013 Louise rated it 5 of 5 stars

Shelves: historical-fiction

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A deeply moving and masterfully written story of human resilience and enduring love, The Plum Tree follows a young German woman through the chaos of World War II and its aftermath.

“Bloom where you’re planted,” is the advice Christine Bolz receives from her beloved Oma. But seventeen-year-old domestic Christine knows there is a whole world waiting beyond her small German village. It’s a world she’s begun to gli...more

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Jan 27, 2013 Aline Newman rated it 3 of 5 stars

First, a disclaimer: I'm much more drawn to non-fiction than fiction, so I'm probably hard to please. But I've met Ellen Marie Wiseman, who lives less than 100 miles from me, and I like her. I also grew up with close family friends who were German refugees. For these reasons, I felt compelled to read Ellen's new book. I both wanted to see what life was like on the German homefront during WWII and to compare Ellen's take on events (which was based on her own mother's experiences) to the stories I...more

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Jan 20, 2013 Laura rated it 3 of 5 stars

I had a hard time sticking with Ellen Marie Wiseman's tale of a WW II romance between a Jewish Boy and an German girl in the beginning. There was almost too much description of place - meeting every flower and chicken in the town, so to speak, and Wiseman kept flinging German phrases into the story then immediately translating them in an annoying way. The central character, Christine, is part of a German family that was almost too morally disengaged from National Socialism to be realistic - very...more

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Dec 15, 2012 Katy rated it 3 of 5 stars

Shelves: coming-of-age, european-history, historical-fiction, ww2

I received this as an e-ARC.

On the balance, I found my enjoying this book more than I didn't. The author has serious talent, and her ability to place the reader in the time and place she's writing about is astounding. You can almost smell the smoke, see the desolation, hear the cries and weeping. The Plum Tree has some of the best atmospheric and scenic writing I've ever read.

The characters, too, are engaging. I might be slightly biased - the experiences of the central family seem close (view s ...more I received this as an e-ARC.

On the balance, I found my enjoying this book more than I didn't. The author has serious talent, and her ability to place the reader in the time and place she's writing about is astounding. You can almost smell the smoke, see the desolation, hear the cries and weeping. The Plum Tree has some of the best atmospheric and scenic writing I've ever read.

The characters, too, are engaging. I might be slightly biased - the experiences of the central family seem close (view spoiler) to the little my own Omi has described of her famiily's wartime experiences, and I empathized with them more than I might have done otherwise. The family seemed almost too squeaky clean, though. Possibly because they are the heroes, not one person in Christine's family even contemplates the Nazi rhetoric, which appeals to the reader but is possibly not entirely historically accurate.

Anyway, I became very fond of Christine, her sister Maria, and their mother. Their stories are each by turns heartbreaking and beautiful and it's very easy to get caught up in them. However, the secondary characters - Oma, Opa, and Kate, for example - were barely even present enough to register in my mind. They were only around in small ways to move the plot forward, then they disappeared, or so it seemed.

The main reason I gave this book three stars, as opposed to three and a half or four, is that I had a great deal of trouble with the pacing. Three or four years went by in less than 100 pages near the beginning and some scenes seemed to just drag on. There would be many pages between something happening, and then two or three very dramatic things would happen all at once. It was slightly disorientating and difficult to read through.

I also didn't particularly believe or care for the central romance, even though I really wanted to like it. In some places, particularly early on, the romance made sense, was even quite lovely, but there would be long stretches where I couldn't quite believe that a romance would work. (view spoiler)

Overall, a good book. The scenes set in Dachau were particularly, almost brilliantly, well-written, and I would suggest the book for that part alone. The pacing seems off, but the writer is great at setting the tone of the scene. You feel as if you are really there with Christine. Slightly uneven overall, but still good; the author's clearly got a lot of talent.(less)

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Nov 06, 2012 Kacey rated it 3 of 5 stars

I picked this book up as an ARC, so I will try to be honest while also avoiding spoilers.

The thing I liked best about this novel was its female protagonist. I loved that although Christine endured many hardships, she still remained strong at heart. She was willing to stand up for what she believed in even when it endangered her. As the story progressed she grew as a character, and in her own way she became a hero.

The subject of World War II Germany and the concentration camps is always a very se...more

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Oct 13, 2012 Jo Butler rated it 4 of 5 stars

Germany is not aware that it is trembling on the edge of madness when Adolf Hitler takes control in 1938. The country has been crushed by poverty for two decades, but the Nazis promise to end poverty and starvation, and to restore national pride. These welcome changes have not yet appeared, but ominous tales are spreading out from the cities and Jewish families are fleeing the country. Signs banning Jews from citizenship in the new Third Reich have just appeared in the small village of Hessental...more Germany is not aware that it is trembling on the edge of madness when Adolf Hitler takes control in 1938. The country has been crushed by poverty for two decades, but the Nazis promise to end poverty and starvation, and to restore national pride. These welcome changes have not yet appeared, but ominous tales are spreading out from the cities and Jewish families are fleeing the country. Signs banning Jews from citizenship in the new Third Reich have just appeared in the small village of Hessental, and the SS is replacing privately-owned radios with new ones – radios which only receive Nazi programs.

These early changes don’t concern seventeen-year old Christine Bolz. What matters is her new-found love for Isaac Bauerman. However, Christine’s mother says that the girl can no longer work as a maid at the Bauerman’s home. Why? Because the Bauermans are Jews.

The Plum Tree, by Ellen Marie Wiseman, sweeps Christina, Isaac, and its readers into the horror of Nazi Germany. The Bauermans are stripped of their belongings, and then the family vanishes. When Nazis build an airfield at Hessental, the village is repeatedly bombed and strafed. Dachau, the now-notorious concentration camp, is also built nearby, and Christina rescues an escaped worker – Isaac. Then he is discovered hiding in her attic. The young couple is sent to Dachau, where Christina finds that her German blood will not rescue her from the horrors behind those barbed wire walls.

Rich family history lies behind The Plum Tree, for the author’s mother grew up in Nazi Germany, and Ms. Wiseman took many childhood trips to visit her grandparents. That depth of experience really shows in Ms. Wiseman’s lush descriptions of Hessental, and of Christina’s struggles to survive World War II. The Jews suffered unspeakably during the Holocaust, but The Plum Tree starkly reminds us that war is hell for everyone. You won’t be able to put this vivid tale of love and survival down.

Jo Ann Butler, author of Rebel Puritan
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May 20, 2013 Wilma rated it 5 of 5 stars

Most of my Goodreads friends know that I normally just rate books and very seldom write reviews…unless it’s a book that really moved me. This book starts out a little slow and too “wordy” for my taste but I’m so glad I stuck with it because it turned into an amazing and deeply moving read about a poor German girl and the son of a wealthy Jewish family who fall in love. Lest that turn you off, this is not just a love story about Christine and Isaac but about how typical German people who did not...more

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Feb 12, 2013 Sara rated it 5 of 5 stars

The Plum Tree is the story of the rise of Hitler, the effects of the War, and the horrors of the Holocaust, told from the perspective of a poor young woman, Christina, living in rural Germany. As the story begins, Christine and Isaac, the son of her Jewish employer, vow their love to each other. However, with the announcement of race laws restricting contact between Aryans and Jews, they must hide their feelings. During the course of the story, we follow Christine's family's struggle during the...more

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Dec 31, 2012 Jessica Brockmole rated it 5 of 5 stars

Shelves: novels

What a beautiful, moving novel! Christine, a young German woman, falls in love with the handsome, educated son of the wealthy Jewish family she works for, just as the Second World War begins and their peaceful little village changes. Desperate to hold on to Isaac and the love that they share, Christine must face the enemy and her own fear to speak up. A fascinating, intricately researched novel of the German home front during and after the war, as the women left behind grapple with fear, depriva...more

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Apr 10, 2013 Mere Ross rated it 5 of 5 stars

The Plum Tree was a quick read for me, as I was so anxious to learn Christine’s fate. Ellen Marie Wiseman wrote this novel in such a way that I felt as if I were experiencing what Christine was. I could hear the air raid sirens, see the thinning bodies of her family members and prisoners in Dachau, breathe in the smoke and dust of the village, and feel the gut-wrenching emotions that she felt. I’m telling you, I experienced so many emotions (much like Christine did) while I was reading! I was ex...more

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Apr 22, 2013 Zora rated it 2 of 5 stars

I wish I could say I liked this more, as the idea of telling a tale of a rural German family in WWII, equally as terrified of Nazis as of allied bombs, sounds an interesting one. The first problem I had with it was the voice of the narrator, which seemed terribly young, mentally 12 years old, though engaged in an unlikely clandestine love affair we're supposed to care about, although we don't get to see it develop or have any reason to think there's much more than mild lust going on. A pebble do...more

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Oct 03, 2012 Biddy rated it 3 of 5 stars

Shelves: fiction

I would have given this wonderful story 4 stars but for one thing....the author really likes to use similes, to such an extent that I got really annoyed! The story line was gripping and drew this reader in quickly. The setting, WWII Germany, I found to be interesting as I have only read WWII fiction set in Allied countries. The story is set in a small town and revolves around an ordinary hard working poor German family whose lives have been deeply effected by all the rules and regulations posted...more

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Jan 08, 2013 Denise rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: 2013-reading-challenge, female-author, historical-fiction, holocaust, kindle, world-war-2, arc, debut-novel

This is the story of Christine, a young German girl and her true love, Isaac, a Jewish fellow from a wealthy family. Other primary characters include Christine’s very likable family, secondary characters being Isaac’s family, Christine’s friend Kate and various villagers. The story is set in a small village in Nazi-occupied Germany during WW2 which is my favorite period of history.

The story follows Christine’s romance with Isaac and her family’s struggles through the war which includes bombings...more

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Dec 17, 2012 Karen rated it 4 of 5 stars

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Christine and Isaac lived in an ordinary village in Germany. Christine, a very poor German girl, worked for Isaac’s affluent Jewish family. Contrary to Isaac’s family’s wishes and plans for him to find a suitable wife, Isaac and Christine fall deeply in love. The story takes place during the horrific years when Hitler comes into power, and war-time atrocities became a part of everyday life. We see the impact the war has on both families and the insurmountable odds of survival. The husbands, fath...more

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Feb 01, 2013 Andrea rated it 5 of 5 stars

There have been many books written about WWII but this one goes many steps further to portray life with all it complexities, hardships, and unspeakable horrors of Germany and the concentration camps. The romance between Christine and Isaac is a wonderful event while the country is in the throes of Nazism and World War II. This novel takes a closer look at what the German people experienced under Hitler´s rule and that most Germans did not want to be compliant to a government and maniacal ruler w...more

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Mar 22, 2013 Ariel rated it 4 of 5 stars

Shelves: historical-fiction-wwii

This was another selection I picked off of the She Reads book blog site, see it here http://www.shereads.org/2013/02/love-...

Christine is a seventeen year old German girl in love with a wealthy Jewish boy named Isaac. As the story takes place on the eve of World war II you know things will not end well for them. Christine and Isaacs love is put to the ultimate test as some of the most brutal events in history contrive to drive them apart.

After a slow start the book took off and by the end I coul...more

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Mar 15, 2013 Susan rated it 2 of 5 stars

A WWII novel from the average German civilian's point of view ... some horrific details and some interesting historical information based on the author's family stories and her research. The narrative is fairly compelling and moves along. The characters are mostly believable to some extent. But overall the book has problems with being overwritten, lacking verisimilitude in parts, and suggesting an underlying naivete that doesn't suit the material. Yes, the love story is romantic, there is herois...more

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May 20, 2013 Sammi rated it 4 of 5 stars

I gave this book four stars because the whole time I was reading I kept comparing it to my own life story--a "Christian" girl dating a "Jewish" boy. I spent two nights wide awake trying to decide if I would have enough courage to basically "steal" my boyfriend from his work group and hide him in my own attic. Christine's actions in this book were heroic, and I am so thankful to live in a time where no one cares how many Jewish grandparents my boyfriend has.

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Feb 02, 2013 Lori Johnston rated it 3 of 5 stars

Shelves: chicklit

I always find reading about the holocaust facinating - how could people do that to each other, where does that level of hate come from? I find especially interesting the stories from the German, non-Jewish perspective and this was one such book.

This book was an interesting story for me, I did really like it but for the most part even with the extreemly horrible subject matter it felt "light" to me. It wasn't a heavy read, it wasn't thick to get through, I read it quickly. I think that those thi...more

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Jan 06, 2013 Tasha rated it 3 of 5 stars

Shelves: historical-fiction, ww2-stories

I received this as an uncorrected advanced copy so that is taken into consideration here as I write my review. This one started off slowly with way too many descriptive words and a romantic relationship in it's first budding stages. If I was not reading this as a commitment I probably would have put it down and never looked back. However, as it was a commitment I read on. I'm glad I did as the story, the writing and the characters improved. Honestly, I was not in the mood for a story about the h...more

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Dec 24, 2012 Jennie - Daystarz Books rated it 4 of 5 stars

Shelves: kindle, historical-fiction, read-2012

Publication date: 24.12.12

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Christine Bolz is 17 and in love with the son of her wealthy Jewish employer. She knows there is a whole world beyond her little German village and she is dreaming of a life with her sweetheart when she finds her country at war. Suddenly under Hitler's regime things are changing and Christine is now forbidden to return to her work or to have any contact with her beau, Isaac, simply because they are Jewish. Jews are disappearing, ordinary German famili...more

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Mar 03, 2013 Sarah rated it 4 of 5 stars

I enjoyed reading a Holocaust fiction from a German's POV. It's important to remember that not all Germans were bad guys and many soldiers were forced into service.

I had a little trouble with the whole romance thing. I just never FELT it. Also, Christine never goes to help her true love in any way until a chance encounter. She only walked by his house once in more than a year? And every conceivable thing happened to herself, someone in her family, or to Issac. It's as if the author crammed ever...more

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Dec 18, 2012 Chaitra rated it 2 of 5 stars

Shelves: netgalley, world-war-ii, set-in-germany, set-in-1940s, romance, historical-fiction, holocaust, read-in-2012

The three stars I initially gave this book didn't last an hour until I could write a review. I didn't love it, I thought, as I'd expected to, but it turns out that there are far too many things that bothered me to say that I even liked it.

Set in Germany in 1930s, this book follows Christine Bölz, a young German girl who loves a Jewish man she works for, Isaac. Just when things are going well for Christine, Hitler comes to power and makes life terrible for Jews. The situation further deteriorates...more The three stars I initially gave this book didn't last an hour until I could write a review. I didn't love it, I thought, as I'd expected to, but it turns out that there are far too many things that bothered me to say that I even liked it.

Set in Germany in 1930s, this book follows Christine Bölz, a young German girl who loves a Jewish man she works for, Isaac. Just when things are going well for Christine, Hitler comes to power and makes life terrible for Jews. The situation further deteriorates, war is declared, and Jews start to disappear into so-called "labor camps". Things are not going well for the non-Jewish Germans either, as they're drafted into war and sent to cold Russia to die. Christine too loses Isaac because he's Jewish, then she loses her father to the Eastern Front. They're also facing starvation, and war doesn't seem to be ending.

There are many reasons why this book does not work for me, but I'll start with the positives. It's a story set in Nazi Germany, that's a topic that interests me. It's unflinching in its portrayal of Dachau and mostly doesn't make excuses for Nazi crime. I liked the descriptions of life in Nazi Germany, the unending air raids, the propaganda, the squalor. The plot moves along very well, albeit in parts. I was concerned that I wouldn't actually sympathize with non-Nazi Germans of this period (as it's happened with a couple of books before this), revealing my own personal bias, but I found it rather easy to sympathize with some of the characters in this book - especially Maria, Christine's sister, Mutti & Vater - Christine's parents. And, there lies the problem.

I didn't completely identify with Christine. I didn't believe in the central romance, which I believe goes hand in hand with that. I really didn't think, for a moment, that theirs was a love strong enough to overcome that basic inequality of him being a Jew and her not, in a period where that made such a difference. We're given a two page introductory scene where we're told Christine has a crush on Isaac and he reciprocates. Then tragedy strikes. They decide, for no good reason, to meet each other in the dead of the night. After some rather insipid meetings, they decide, again, to stop for what we are told are years. Christine never does give anything up for the sake of Isaac through these years, she goes long periods without thinking of him, and suddenly, one day, she decides she can't do without him, presumably to move the plot along. And then he goes away again. This happens, more than a few times. She can survive without him, he without her, but the plot drops everything it's doing to explain to us, several times, that Christine cannot survive without Isaac. When he's around, Isaac chimes in.

Christine goes see-sawing being a very sensible person intent on surviving in one moment to someone awfully silly doing stupid things she's been warned not to the next. She also miraculously survives too many things - (view spoiler) I can take some of them, not all, not in a fictional book. The entire post-war section was the part I hated the most. I thought it was unnecessary, it's the thing that made me actively dislike Christine though I think its intention was the opposite. I was also bothered by smaller things, (view spoiler).

All in all, I expected to like it more than I actually did. I read Ellen Marie Wiseman's interview (which, along with the author's note, is quite a compelling read) at the end of the book, and I wish she had decided against the twist she put in - the romance between Christine and her Jewish boy. But, in the portions where war is described, or the conditions in Germany, the book works very well. I just wish those portions were bigger.

I received a copy of this book for review via NetGalley.

Edit: Christine (view spoiler) triggered a different novel, where the heroine is Jewish, (view spoiler). It's bugging me to no end not to identify this book. (less)

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Feb 23, 2013 Leaniebean72 rated it 5 of 5 stars

The Plum Tree is a well-written, heartfelt tale of a German girl coming to age during World War II. It showed me a whole other, human side to a war I had studied extensively as a history student. The story of two young people who fall in love and are faced with such daunting odds is beautiful and haunting. I couldn't put it down once I started reading it! Ellen did a superb job of taking her mother's memories of wartime Germany and fusing them with an exciting, suspenseful tale. This is one book...more

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Ellen Marie Wiseman's debut novel, The Plum Tree, was released by Kensington Publishing on December 25th, 2012. Set in Nazi Germany, The Plum Tree is an epic story of human resilience and enduring hope that follows a young German woman through WWII as she struggles to survive poverty and Allied bombs, finds the courage to outwit SS officers, and risks everything trying to save the love of her life...more

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