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Spotted on pat's profileWithdrawn from Oxfordshire Library Service, this is the large print edition published by Thorndike Press.From the author's note: Sacrifice is a work of imagination, inspired by Shetland legend.Dedication:For Andrew,who makes everything possible;and for Hal,who makes it worthwhile.Opening quote: There are nights when the wolves are silent and only the moon howls. George Carlin.Great opening: The corpse I could cope with. It was the context that threw me.#19 TBR Busting 2013Flawed, but goodness, a cracking good read

Unfortunately I didn't care much for the narrator (I don't remember her name, but as she was a Danish narrator, that won't really matter to most of you anyway ;) ) as her voice was very, very monotonous. Thankfully the plot more than made up for it!World War 2 stories have always fascinated me, as they show so much about human nature. This one was especially interesting, as it brought home to me rather forcefully how difficult life was for Jews in other European countries - not just Germany and Poland. I tend to think that most were treated like Danish Jews, and keep forgetting that that's not the case.Sarah's Key wasn't as devastating as I'd expected, but it was still a heartbreaking story. I liked the way it was written - with parallels to present-day France - as that gave a very nice perspective to the story. But some of the attitudes depicted in the book frustrated and infuriated me - just because it's been 60 years doesn't mean we should forget all about the Holocaust.Great book, even if it did end up being very different from what I had expected.