These are stories from the past, but they are still echoing now, in the present. As I write this, Russian forces are using rape as a weapon of war against Ukrainian women; deported mothers are being separated from their children in the US; border walls are being built and fortified at an unprecedented rate across the globe (there are currently seventy-four in existence). But this much is clear: when walls are built, people will find a way over or under them; when families are separated, they do everything in their power to be reunited; and when women are victims, they find the courage to speak up, to band together, to survive.
The Silence in Between is historical fiction based in Berlin in both 1961 and during the Second World War. Lisette lives in East Berlin but her new-born baby is being treated in a hospital in West Berlin. Under doctor's orders, she goes home to rest, leaving her baby in their care. But overnight the border between East and West closes, slicing the city – and the world – in two. Lisette is struck mute by despair, but this isn’t the first time she has lost her voice. Decades earlier Lisette experienced unimaginable horrors in war-torn Berlin – events that still haunt her. Now in 1961, with a city in chaos and armed guards ordered to shoot anyone who tries to cross the border, Lisette’s situation is desperate once more. Witnessing her mother’s suffering, Lisette’s teenage daughter Elly hatches a daring plan to escape East Berlin, find her baby brother, and bring him home...
Theodore Roosevelt
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