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Approximately seven thousand Jewish children in France were saved, yet over eleven thousand were deported to Auschwitz between 1940 and 1942. Most were gassed on arrival. The fact that French police were in charge of rounding them up remains a matter of national shame.
Jacques wants to share the joy of discovering an author who speaks to one’s soul, the thrill of losing oneself in a story more vivid and exciting than real life. He will call his shop La Page Cachée – The Hidden Page – because he knows the magic that is to be found within the covers of a book.
the air between them crackles with invisible lightning.
The shop looks just as he imagined it would all those months before: an oasis of peace, packed with stories waiting to be heard.
‘If you can’t think what to do,’ her brother Andrew had once told her, ‘at least decide what you don’t want to do.’
She looked at him sadly. ‘We have to try. A life without freedom is no life at all.’
the time they had met Picasso in the Café Deux Magots and he had sketched Estelle on the back of a napkin;
Bookstores and libraries were her spiritual home, so quiet and calm and full of knowledge
Death is coming for all of us, sooner or later. It’s how we live that matters.’
Books are important to save but so are people. Everyone has a story to tell and what a great one ours will be when all this is over.
There were people everywhere who needed help, once you opened your eyes – and found the courage not to look away.
