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All the Light We Cannot See

"A big book in every way, powerful, intensely moving and awe inspiring. "

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Open your eyes and see what you can with them before they close forever. My heart was stolen by Marie-Laure, who turned blind at six-years-old. We follow her endearing, and enduring friendship with the wonderful Werner, a German orphan, against the savage backdrop of the second world war. Never is our faith in the innate goodness of people more tested than during the horrors of war, but in these two characters we are reminded that no matter how great the odds against you, hope and kindness will remain long after the final bullets have been fired. One of my all time favourites. 

Selected by Chris Whitaker, Our Spring 2022 Guest Editor. Click here to read the full Guest Editor Piece.

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One of our Books of the Year 2015.

May 2015 Book of the Month.

Winner of the 2015 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction.

A big book in every way, powerful, intensely moving and awe inspiring.  It traces the lives of blind Marie and orphan Werner through World War II.  Werner is a whizz with fixing things and is pushed into Hitler’s Youth and on into the heart of the fighting until he lands up in St Malo on the Brittany coast where he meets Marie.  Marie has fled there from Paris as the Germans advanced.  The novel takes us through to the present.  It is an epic story of the horror of war, the suffering and endurance illuminated with many acts of kindness.  Beautifully written, it is a memorable, haunting tale.  Doerr is an author to note being chosen by Granta as one of 21 Best Young American Novelists of the moment. ~ Sarah Broadhurst

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