The Cut Out Girl
BART VAN ES
(AUDIBLE, £19.99)

Lien is eight when her mother tells her that she will be going to stay with somebody new. The next morning a kind lady arrives and takes her to a tiny house inhabited by an unknown family in another town. It is 1942, Lien is Jewish and her parents are trying to save her life.

After settling happily with the loving, brisk mother figure of this family, her severe but upright husband and a gaggle of children, terrifying things begin to happen to Lien. The police call and Lien is whisked away, passed from house to house, concealed with other fugitives in a filthy hideaway, locked alone in a room above a doctor’s surgery.