I have a soft spot for Holocaust stories, since I was a little girl. This one had great interplay between past and present and presented a really interesting angle (POV: German woman trying to survive and a bit of a Stokholm syndrome as well) that isnt much explored. The ending was a bit too neat, but sometimes you need that. I think overall the character traits and reactions were all more realistic than I have read almost anywhere else...people didn't change just to fill in a story line. impressive.