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Rachel's Shoe ReviewThis is a wonderful story about two children who meet by chance on one of the Channel Islands during the period of German occupation in WW2. The thirteen-year-old girl, Rachel Levi, is the only known survivor of the Nazi persecution and the disbandment of the wealthy Jewish Levi family in Munich, and she is alive and in the Channel Islands solely because her astute but desperate mother bribed a German army officer so that it was distinctly in his interest to keep Rachel alive. So instead of sending Rachel to a concentration camp with her mother, he put her to work in the kitchen of a slave camp on the island of Alderney, from which she has just escaped under cover of darkness. Fifteen-year-old Tom Le Breton - the son of a Guernsey family who is desperately hiding his boat and himself from the Germans after straying beyond limits while night-fishing - finds Rachel sobbing on the beach, alone and desperate. Tom's young heart goes out to her and he vows to help her escape from the camp.
So begins a friendship that soon develops into a bond which is destined to stand the test of time as Tom and his relatives risk their lives keeping Rachel safe from discovery. But the Germans are closing in on Rachel and when a chance to send her to the safety of England presents itself, they seize it, even though it means a sad parting for the young couple. Meanwhile, in the confusion of her hasty departure from her hiding place on the island of Herm, Rachel forgets her mother's often-repeated advice to keep her shoes, especially the right one, by her. She consequently leaves it somewhere in her island hideaway, not knowing that her loving mother has hidden a clue to her daughter's legacy within the shoe.
Then one day in May 1945, the British finally liberate the Channel Islands and Tom unexpectedly finds Rachel back in his arms, this time for ever, they pledge. In time, they marry and raise a family in a very modest cottage on Guernsey, blissfully unaware of sinister plans afoot in Germany to end Rachel's life. Along the way, these also result in the murder of the only person who could have shed light on the obscure mystery surrounding Rachel's old shoe. However, with suspicions raised, her family set off on a trail of discovery about the significance of the shoe.
From here, the story develops even further in its completely gripping fashion, extending beyond romance, heroism and loyalty into unexpected dark happenings, betrayals and evil intentions. It becomes virtually impossible to put the book down until its breathless climax arrives in Germany at the shareholders' meeting of a large company. The exciting denouement-- best described as in the style of "a grand movie finale"-- brings this beautifully crafted and highly recommended novel to a very satisfying and rewarding ending.
Rachel's Shoe OverviewNestled in the bay of St Malo, the Channel Islands claim the unique, if dreadful distinction of being the only part of Britain to have been occupied by a foreign power in hundreds of years. Life on the islands during the five years under the Jackboot was hard and freedoms severely curtailed, but the spirit of a young Guernsey boy called Tom Le Breton was never dampened. This is the story of a dramatic wartime rescue and the romance that grew between Tom and a young Jewish girl imprisoned on the nearby island of Alderney. The story moves from those dangerous but somehow magical days to the heady 1970's when long-since forgotten events return to haunt a small family now settled on the Western coast of Guernsey. Impregnated with the atmosphere of remote islands and their unique history, Rachel's Shoe is an adventure story about the survival of innocence in a world dominated by obsessions for power and wealth.

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