This is Dr Anne's second John Boyne in a week. Dr Anne has a number of projects on the list of to dos but nothing has happened as her focus has been on this latest book of John Boyne. It is dedicated to all the victims of child abuse by 'folk' associated with the Catholic Church in Ireland.
The story dotted back and forth the decades from the fifties to 2013. The story built up around Odran Yates across Ireland and to Rome. There was more than one climax. In the end the lesson for us all is that knowing something that might destroy people's lives and not acting on it makes one as guilty as the people who actually do the ill.
John Boyne is definitely not afraid of taking on major issues and turning them into thought provoking stories. Dr Anne awards 9/10. It doesn't quite reach the emotions of The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas or The Power of One and Tandia.
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