A heart-wrenching story from the bestselling author of The Throwaway Children. Thirteen-year-old Lisa has escaped from Nazi Germanyon the Kindertransport. She arrives in London unable to speak a word of English, her few belongings crammed into a small suitcase. Among them is one precious photograph of the family she has left behind. Lonely and homesick, Lisa is adopted by a childless couple. But … is adopted by a childless couple. But when the Blitz blows her new home apart, she wakes up in hospital with no memory of who she isor where she came from. The authorities give her a new name and despatch her to a children’s home.
With the war raging around her, what will become of Lisa now?
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What readers are saying about The Girl With No Name:
‘Diney Costeloe has perfectly capturedthe traumatic atmosphere of the war years both in London and the countryside … Highly recommended’
‘The characters leap from the pages. The Blitz scenes were palpable, imagining what Londoners endured during WW2. Love all Diney’s books’
‘The author writes with good pace, and excellent descriptionsof place and characters, but her main skill is in conveying the personal dilemmas faced by her characters. I shall definitely seek out more books by this author’.
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I loved this book! Actually all of the books I have read from this author are really good books. This book in particular takes place during the holocaust and how a girl is separated from her family during an explosion and loses her memory! The story starts out sad but has a great happy ending.
Haunting and lovely. I wanted to reach through the pages and put my arms around Charlotte/Lisa. I tend to think that I have a good handle on the facts around WWII, and then I find another book that takes me inside the lives of a certain population of people, and I realize I didn’t really understand at all what they must have gone through. This book is beautifully written and heartbreaking and hopeful.
History of London during WWII was enlightening and sad. I loved the characters and how it all turned out.
This story about a child survivor of the war with Germany is wonderfully written. I love the historical aspects incorporated into the story. A great read!
I could see where this probably truly happened in WWII. Totally enjoyed it
This book was a pleasure to read. The characters were well portrayed and came to life. It really brought home the death and distraction of the bombs in London during the blitz and the loss of family. It also briefly touched on the persecution of the Jews by the Nazis.
The courage of the characters in this story inspired. Having to live in fear of the bombings and the aftermath of them was constant. Sending one’s children out of the country to strangers to protect them was heart rending. That German children were feared in England because they were German was ironic because they feared and disliked Hitler as much or more than the English did. They lost families and some faced bullying in their new strange homes. Others were treated kindly but still had to deal with the German bombings in England. Many had no families to return to after the war. There was no happily ever after in this story.
It’s very interesting to read about personal lives during that period of history!
This book was very realistic.Lisa a Jewish girl came to London to escape the Nazis. Her parents and brother left behind. A boy named Heimlitch came at the same tome. Lisa was only 13 and she stayed with a nice English couple with no children their own. . I thought it told about the horror of the BLITZ in London and what the people went through very well. Many lost lives, houses bombed and thousands with no place to live. The boy, now callig himself Harry took a shine to Lisa. One day he took her to the shops and out for lunch but when it came time to go home he put her on the bus alone. She had told her foster parents that she was staying with a girlfriend because they didn’t like Harry. When she got off the bus and started to walk to a friends house there was a huge bombing and she was urged into a doorway by a man walking past. She was found and taken to the hospital but she had lost her memory. That’s the start of the book. It was very enjoyable and I won’t give away the rest. I got it from Amazon and it’s one of those books that doesn’t tell the pages but it’s long.
Very clever plot and accurate WW II period details. Well-written, you could “hear” the bombs being dropped on London adn feel the despair of those on the homefront very seriously impacted by the war.
Really enjoyed it.
a good read with a great ending!
Interesting and thought provoking about the Jewish children sent to England to escape Nazi Germany.
I loved this book because I related to it. I was not on the kinder transport but I was a hiddden child during the war and did not see my mother for God knows how long. My father had already died in Auschwitz. The writing was fluid, easy to read, tragic but witty in short places.
Blanche Krakowski
Just a good read.
Once again, this one realistically portrays the casualties of war that we don’t even think about- children!
Really great story line and likable characters. Also some interesting insight about what happened to some of the children on the Kindertransports out of Hitler’s Germany. Really enjoyed reading this book!
Loved it.
interesting.
Excellent historical fiction.
A WWII story set in England in the latter part of the war. A German Jewish teen is sent to England for safe keeping. The story of of her time in London with a foster family.
She looses her memory when she is caught in the Blitz and suffers a concussion. She is sent to a children’s Home and given a new name. The children there are sent to the countryside to escape the Blitz. Lots of characters enter her country life. Just a good story that I enjoyed very much.