Trade paperback edition in good condition. Some cover wear. Fine reading copy.
“There have been circuses from the times of the Romans and Greeks, our traditions centuries old. We had survived the Middle Ages, the Napoleonic Wars, The Great War. We would survive this, too.”
Sixteen-year-old Noa has been cast out in disgrace after becoming pregnant by a Nazi soldier and being forced to give up her baby. She lives above a small rail station, which she cleans in order to earn her keep. When Noa discovers a boxcar containing dozens of Jewish infants bound for a concentration camp, she is reminded of the child that was taken from her. In a moment that will change the course of her life, she snatches one of the babies and flees into the snowy night.
Noa finds refuge with a German circus, but she must learn the flying trapeze act so she can blend in undetected, spurning the resentment of the lead aerialist, Astrid. At first rivals, Noa and Astrid soon forge a powerful bond. As the facade that protects them proves increasingly tenuous, Noa and Astrid must decide whether their friendship is enough to save one another—or if the secrets that burn between them will destroy everything.
Read Alikes for The Orphan’s Tale: The Woman with the Blue Star by Pam Jenoff; The Book of Lost Names by Kristin Harmel; Circling the Sun by Paula McLain; We Were the Lucky Ones by Georgia Hunter
Trade paperback edition in good condition. Some cover wear. Fine reading copy.
“There have been circuses from the times of the Romans and Greeks, our traditions centuries old. We had survived the Middle Ages, the Napoleonic Wars, The Great War. We would survive this, too.”
Sixteen-year-old Noa has been cast out in disgrace after becoming pregnant by a Nazi soldier and being forced to give up her baby. She lives above a small rail station, which she cleans in order to earn her keep. When Noa discovers a boxcar containing dozens of Jewish infants bound for a concentration camp, she is reminded of the child that was taken from her. In a moment that will change the course of her life, she snatches one of the babies and flees into the snowy night.
Noa finds refuge with a German circus, but she must learn the flying trapeze act so she can blend in undetected, spurning the resentment of the lead aerialist, Astrid. At first rivals, Noa and Astrid soon forge a powerful bond. As the facade that protects them proves increasingly tenuous, Noa and Astrid must decide whether their friendship is enough to save one another—or if the secrets that burn between them will destroy everything.
Read Alikes for The Orphan’s Tale: The Woman with the Blue Star by Pam Jenoff; The Book of Lost Names by Kristin Harmel; Circling the Sun by Paula McLain; We Were the Lucky Ones by Georgia Hunter
ISBN 978-0-7783-1981-8
Pam Jenoff
2017
