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Author: Hoffman, Alice

Reading age: from c 8 years

Published on 17 September 2024 by Scholastic in the United Kingdom.

Paperback | 320 pages
197 x 128 x 20 | 212g

 

A beautiful novel exploring the little-known story of

Anne Frank’s life before she went into hiding – from bestselling,

award-winning author Alice Hoffman and published in cooperation

with the Anne Frank House.

In soaring prose, bestselling author Alice Hoffman brings Anne

Frank to life on the page, drawing from her extensive research in

Europe and the United States, to depict her experiences from the

moment the Nazis invade the Netherlands until her family is forced

into hiding in the annex of her father’s office building at 263

Prinsengracht, in Amsterdam.

As state-sponsored discrimination turns ordinary people into monsters,

the Jews of the Netherlands are caught in an inescapable

swell of violence and hate, and Anne is shaped as both a young woman

and as a writer who will change the world.

WHEN WE FLEW AWAY features archival content provided

by the Anne Frank House, as well as information about Otto

Frank’s desperate bids to get his family to safety in America gathered

from correspondence between Otto Frank and Nathan Straus,

Jr., from the Straus Historical Society’s Archives.

A heart-wrenching exploration of Anne’s life before the annex

By New York Times bestselling author of The World

We Knew, Alice Hoffman

Featuring archival content provided by the Anne Frank House