Publisher: Avon Books UK, July 6th 2021

Format: ebook

Pages: 416

Rating: 4/5 stars

Synopsis (from Goodreads):

From the USA Today and internationally bestselling WWII novelist of The German Midwife, The Secret Messenger and The Berlin Girl comes a story set at the dawn of the Cold War in Berlin.

A city divided.

When the Berlin Wall goes up, Karin is on the wrong side of the city. Overnight, she’s trapped under Soviet rule in unforgiving East Berlin and separated from her twin sister, Jutta.

Two sisters torn apart.

Karin and Jutta lead parallel lives for years, cut off by the Wall. But Karin finds one reason to keep going: Otto, the man who gives her hope, even amidst the brutal East German regime.

One impossible choice…

When Jutta finds a hidden way through the wall, the twins are reunited. But the Stasi have eyes everywhere, and soon Karin is faced with a terrible decision: to flee to the West and be with her sister, or sacrifice it all to follow her heart?

My Review:

Thank you Avon Books UK for the copy of this book.
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Read if you like: Cold War history, Ken Follett’s Edge of Eternity.
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Twins Karin and Jutta get separated when the Berlin Wall is erected and how the sisters try to find a way back to each other. Of course, this is not easy and the book looks at many different trials that the twins go through.
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The beginning was a little slow but then it picked up right away and I was sucked in! I really loved the relationship between the two women and how the book shows the impact the wall had on families living in Berlin.
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CW: violence, torture, death, separation.