DIARY OF A YOUNG GIRL

In 1942, with the Nazis occupying Holland, a thirteen-year-old Jewish girl and her family fled their home in Amsterdam and went into hiding. For the next two years, until their whereabouts were betrayed to the Gestapo, the Franks and another family lived cloistered in the “Secret Annexe” of an old office building. Cut off from the outside world, they faced hunger, boredom, the constant cruelties of living in confined quarters, and the ever-present threat of discovery and death. In her diary Anne Frank recorded vivid impressions of her experiences during this period. By turns thoughtful, moving, and surprisingly humorous, her account offers a fascinating commentary on human courage and frailty and a compelling self-portrait of a sensitive and spirited young woman whose promise was tragically cut short.

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`Anne Frank's diary is one of the greatest books of the century . . .. We return to her again and again, unable to believe that this hymn to life was written on the way to Belsen`
Guardian

`Rings down the decades as the most moving testament to the persecution of innocence`
Daily Mail

`Astonishing and excruciating. Its gnaws at us still`
New York Times Book Review