The Girl With No Name

I’m only half way through but this is an interesting tale of life living as a Jew/German in WW2. It’s a long book so I hope there are plenty more stories to tell about this young girl. Very easy read but we’ll written.

I liked how the story carried you through her life with the ups and downs, introducing other exciting characters to the story. I have purchased the follow on book

Really enjoyed this book. Page Turner from start to finish. When so many people are going through war and hard times at the moment, this book brings it home how tough it really is. Families torn apart with no clear vision of the future.

Excellent.What went on during the war was brilliantly written about. I feel that I was Lisa and I could wait to see where she would be next.

I haven't yet read all of this book - I am about two thirds of the way through it. It has gripped me from the first page, and I cannot wait to see what happens. The story is particularly interesting to me as I had an elderly friend who was a German Jew and he got out of Germany in August 1939 on the kindertransport aged just 10 years old. The only English he knew were the words Yes and No. He and his mother really suffered from persecution even though his father was a hero and won medals fighting for Germany in the First World War. They had a rich farm but all of this was confiscated by the Third Reich. His father died mid 1930s so he and his mother were left alone. Fortunately she was able to join him some time later, but both of them suffered from insults and bullying due to the fact they were German. Sadly it seemed to make no difference to the bullies that they were refugees from a cruel regime. The Girl with No Name is really true to life, according to the stories told to me by my friend, and I cannot wait to finish the book to see what happens to Charlotte and Harry. The author has really captured the period and the difficulties faced by refugees from Germany. I thoroughly recommend this book and congratulate the author who has clearly done a lot of research.

excellent read, right from the first page to the end i could not put it down well done diney, now onto the second book in the series.

This was the first book of this type of story I have read. I thoroughly enjoyed the story and the fact it wrapped up neatly at the end instead of leaving the reader wanting to know what happened to all the other characters who played a part in the life of Lisa. I did wonder at the various premises she found herself in all having proper bathroom facilities at the time of the war even in villages. This was certainly not the case in my childhood which was much later, in the mid fifties. I still remember the scary walk in all weathers on dark winter nights to a shed with wooden seat and three different sized holes. No lighting, only a torch. My father built on a bathroom at our house but many of my friends were not so lucky. At their parties there was always a string of terrified girls, all who have hung on as long as possible before making a dash in the rain to the dark foreboding smelly toilet.

Sad and happy in equal parts. You see the war years throughout eyes of a young German Jew girl and get live her life of ups and bad downs until the war ends. This author has a way of making story and history come together in a great read