- Published: 2 August 2018
- ISBN: 9780241985090
- Imprint: Penguin Audio
- Format: Audio Download
- RRP: $27.99
The Cut Out Girl
A Story of War and Family, Lost and Found: The Costa Book of the Year 2018
- Published: 2 August 2018
- ISBN: 9780241985090
- Imprint: Penguin Audio
- Format: Audio Download
- RRP: $27.99
Luminous, elegant, haunting - I read it straight through
Philippe Sands, Author of East West Street
Remarkable - the story of one traumatic childhood, deeply moving, and told with great dexterity, allowing the wisdoms of today to run parallel with the absorbing narrative of wartime events
Penelope Lively
An awe-inspiring account of the tragedies and triumphs within the world of the Holocaust's "hide-away" children, and of the families who sheltered them
Georgia Hunter, author of We Were the Lucky Ones
Harrowing and beautiful
Bookseller
A nuanced, moving, and unusual "hidden child" account
Publishers Weekly
Compassionate and thoughtfully rendered, the book is both a memorable portrait of a remarkable woman and a testament to the healing power of understanding. A complex and uplifting tale
Kirkus
Brought to life with family photographs and diary entries that add further impact to Lien's harrowing memories and testimony - this deeply affecting and fascinating story is guaranteed to haunt you
Sunday Mirror
Fascinating, beautifully written. Van Es carefully salvages Lien's story and creates a deeply moving and complex book about war, atrocity and human suffering
The Oldie
Superb. This is a necessary book - painful, harrowing, tragic, but also uplifting
The Times Book of the Week
The Cut Out Girl is a reminder of the extraordinary richness of archives and the treasures released by scholarly research
TLS
An extraordinary story, harrowing, deeply affecting. This fascinating story is guaranteed to haunt you
People
Deeply moving. Writes with an almost Sebaldian simplicity and understatement
Guardian
Astonishing. Van Es has created a masterpiece of history and memoir, concluding on a note of reconciliation, hope and great love
Evening Standard
Deeply moving, this is a remarkable memoir
Sunday Times
Powerful . . . extraordinary
Irish Times
An extraordinary, harrowing story of loss, survival and love
Guardian
A moving story of personal and family history, with a scholar's objective eye for the bigger picture.
Irish Times
Sensational and gripping . . . shedding light on some of the most urgent issues of our time
Judges of the Costa Book of the Year Prize 2018
Harrowing . . . profoundly moving
Daily Express