A very moving story of a Jewish family living in Czechoslovakia in 1938/39 as Hitler makes his move through the Sudetenland. At times it was like watching a horror movie - I kept wanting to yell out "run, run! He's going to get you!!". The descriptions of distraught and desperate parents at the train station forcing their children onto a "kinderstransporter" to London had me in tears. I cannot even begin to imagine the horror and desperation. A cleverly crafted and well written book. Am sure it will make it into the Man Booker shortlist (has been longlisted).