'Blum's novel has the readability of a saga but the weight of something more' Metro

For fifty years Anna has refused to talk about her life as a civilian in World War II Germany. Her daughter, Trudy, was only three when Anna fell for an Allied solider and they began their new life in America. Trudy's sole evidence of the past is an old photograph: a family portrait showing her with her mother and a Nazi officer. Trudy begins a quest that will reveal Anna's cruel war. And the shame that kept a mother from sharing her heartbreak.

'Gripping and shocking, and packs a powerful emotional punch' Daily Mail
'Jenna Blum's seductive, subtle style kept me hooked' Sunday Telegraph
'A powerful evocation of terrible events, moving and persuasive.' Penelope Lively
'A penetrating novel which touches the heart and questions the conscience' Independent on Sunday

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Jenna Blum lived in London and Minneapolis before settling in Boston, where she now teaches at Boston University and Grub Street Writers. Jenna is of German and Jewish descent and worked for Steven Spielberg's Shoah Foundation for four years, interviewing Holocaust survivors. Those Who Save Us is her first novel. She currently teaches at Boston University and is the fiction editor for AGNI magazine.