People Like Us

De: Louise Fein

Narrado por: Holli Dempsey

Leipzig, 1930s Germany.

Hetty Heinrich is a young girl growing up under Nazi rule. With an SS Officer father, a brother in the Luftwaffe and a member of the BDM, Hetty is the epitome of a perfect German child. But Walter changes everything.

Blond-haired, blue-eyed, perfect-in-every-way Walter. The boy who saved her life. A Jew. As she falls more and more in love with a man who is against all she has been taught, Hetty begins to question everything. Will the steady march of dark forces destroy their world, or can love ultimately triumph?

Perfect for fans of The Tattooist of Auschwitz, The Book Thief and Kate Furnivall.

©2020 Louise Fein (P)2020 Head of Zeus

amazing

I have no words to describe this book. u found it deeply impactful. it was scary to get inside a head of a young German girl and scary to think how easy it was to brainwash these people bit by bit, one tiny step at a time and how easily it could happen again... beautiful book.

People Like Us

It read like a YA book rather than adult literature. Even though it was written from the German perspective, which was the drawcard for me, I thought it followed the same trope, and while I finished the book, I’d score it a 6.5 0r 7/10 because I found the characters sometimes irksome and less than believable in their responses. It was all too predictable. A minor quibble is that the reader pronounces ‘says’ like ‘days’, which I know is dialectal but I did find myself distracted and focusing on it. People raved about this book on my book site, so perhaps I am just jaded.