The New York Times bestselling author of Beautiful Exiles conjures her best novel yet, a pre-World War II-era story with the emotional resonance of Orphan Train and All the Light We Cannot See, centering for the Kindertransports that carried a large number of children out of Nazi-occupied Europe-and one brave woman who helped them escape to safety.

In 1936, the Nazi are bit more than loud, brutish bores to fifteen-year older Stephan Neuman, the son of a rich and influential Jewish family and about The Last Teach to London: A Book budding playwright whose playground extends from Vienna’s streets to its intricate underground tunnels. Stephan’s best friend and partner is the amazing Žofie-Helene, a Christian woman whose mother edits a progressive, anti-Nazi newspaper. But the two children’ carefree innocence is usually shattered when the Nazis’ take control.

There is certainly hope in the darkness, though. Truus Wijsmuller, a member of the Dutch resistance, risks her existence smuggling Jewish kids out of Nazi Germany to the nations which will take them. It is a objective that becomes a lot more dangerous after the Anschluss-Hitler’s annexation of Austria-as, across European countries, countries close their edges to the growing number of refugees desperate to escape.

Tante Truus, as she actually is known, is set to save as much children as she may. After Britain passes a measure to take at-risk kid refugees in the German Reich, she dares to strategy Adolf Eichmann, the man who would afterwards help devise the “Last Answer to the Jewish Question,” inside a competition against time for you to bring kids like Stephan, his young sibling Walter, and Žofie-Helene on a perilous journey to an uncertain future abroad.