SAVING RAFAEL
published by Andersen Press
There was a vehicle pulling up outside. I heard the booted feet running up the stairs, then the hammering on the apartment door and the shouting. 'Open up! Gestapo!'
You're fifteen years old. You're in love. Only this is Nazi-ruled Berlin and he's a Jew, so it's against the law to love him. And it's 1943 and they're taking the last Jews away from Berlin. To the gas chambers.
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A Happy Christmas to all my readers! And people considering becoming readers. My blog on a German Christmas will be available from midnight tonight on http://the-history-girls.blogspot.com/ 'Powerful and compelling.. a gripping read.' The School Librarian 'An unusual perspective on life in Berlin during the Second World War.. powerful and moving.' Booktrust. 'This book has touched my heart, and I was crying silent tears as I finished the last page. I would recommend this to anybody that likes to read books that stay with them for days after they have read them.' Coral, Year 9, Brighton and Hove High School. 'This book was absolutely mind-blowing. I couldn't put it down! It was so interesting it was just amazing to read. I loved every single bit of it and the setting was amazing. I felt like I was in the character's position. I felt despair, fear, anger and so many more emotions streamed out of me as I read this book.' G Uzma, teenage judge, Lancashire Book of the Year Award. SAVING RAFAEL WAS NOMINATED FOR THE 2010 CARNEGIE MEDAL, SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2010 LANCASHIRE CHILDRENS BOOK OF THE YEAR AND WAS HIGHLY COMMENDED IN THE SOUTHERN SCHOOLS BOOK AWARD. Welcome to my website, where you can read about me, my German family background, and my books, as well as about my source material for the novels set in Nazi Germany, Last Train from Kummersdorf, and Saving Rafael - and school visits. I hope you enjoy it, or find it useful, since clearly stuff about Nazi Germany isn't what you call enjoyable. But even in that dark area of human history, there are heartening stories, and those are the ones I've written about in my last two novels for young adults. I am blogging with a group of other authors nowadays, rather than keeping up a regular private blog. It is published at http://awfullybigblogadventure.blogspot.com/ where you can also see archived blogs from me, and from many other authors. Also, visit my literary gardener blog at http://leslierikawilsonliterarygardener.blogspot.com/ See also my blog about the themes of Last Train from Kummersdorf at: http://steelthistles.blogspot.com/ You will have to scroll down to get to it, though, as it was the last but one.. Another bit of web writing, about Klaus Mann's novel Mephisto, is at http://normblog.typepad.com/normblog/2010/02/writers-choice-247-leslie-wilson.html A completely different kind of writing by me: go to http://www.foodethicscouncil.org/files/Magazine_4%283%29_4-7.pdf where you will find an introduction to a special publication of the Food and Ethics Council about food waste, co-authored by me and Himself. It was a new thing to collaborate like this, but it went really well, so we might do it again.
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