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Boyne, John The Boy at the Top of the Mountain Doubleday, 2015, pp224, £12.99 978 0 8575 3452 1
John Boyne returns to the Second World War in this novel about a young boy, Pierrot. Growing up in Paris, seven year old Pierrot lives happily in an apartment with his French mother and his pet dog. He enjoys school, has lots of friends, and his best friend, Anshel, lives in the same building and is like a brother to him. However, his life changes when his mother dies of tuberculosis, and he is sent first to an orphanage, and then to...