A blind girl is in Paris living with her father. An boy is living in the west of Germany with his sister in an orphanage It is between the wars. Their lives are in parallel. The blind girl is a free spirit in the world of books - '20 thousand leagues under the sea' spending most of her time in a museum among its artefacts. The boy is talented and makes a radio out of copper wire from the tip then becomes a crack hand mend everyones' radios. On the invasion of Paris the blind girl flees to St Malo. Meanwhile the boy is taken to East Germany to be educated and indoctrinated in the technology of radios. The girl helps the resistance by collecting codes to be transmitted by her great uncle. The boy travels around Europe seeking out the radios of the resistance.
Their lives cross because of a link that goes back to radio transmissions in the boy's youth.
It was a beautiful read which linked with the wonder of the Swarkowsi Museum near Innsbruck.
Dr Anne awards a 9.5/10.
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