Here are two people, who were destined to meet, but circumstances allow them only a short time together before they must part and never meet again. They don't know each other's histories and won't know what will happen to the other after they walk away in different directions, but that brief connection is key to both their lives. The book begins in the years leading up to the Second World War and the story follows two children; Marie-Laure who is blind and lives with her father in France and Werner who is an orphan living with a kindly woman in Germany. The chapters are short and the story flips between the two characters until we know who they are and how they learnt their moral values. When the war comes they are swept up into the conflict and policy dictates they must be enemies, but in peacetime they would have shared a common interest and become friends. Choices are taken away from them and each finds themselves tested both morally and physically. I t...