An unforgettable and completely heartbreaking World War Two novel

On a hot and dusty Parisian street, two brave women risk everything for a tiny, dark-haired baby…

Paris, 1942: From the far side of the cobbled street Sadie locks eyes with a thin woman wearing a yellow star and clutching a newborn baby. Her eyes carry a pleading message that Sadie cannot ignore. As the woman is hustled onto a bus by cold-eyed soldiers, she calls out a desperate appeal.

Moments later, Sadie hears the tiny cry. Scooping the abandoned baby under her jacket, she runs to where she works: La Maison Bleue. A place of glittering chandeliers and velvet armchairs, beloved by the German soldiers. A dangerous place for a young girl to hide a Jewish child.

Sadie vows she will reunite the baby with her mother. She walks the streets of Paris until one day, in an old airless department store, she sees a familiar pair of sad, dark eyes…

Each time Sadie visits the baby’s mother she takes a terrible chance. There is joy as she whispers of the little girl’s gummy smiles but also a chilling sense of fear. Paris is crumbling and the enemy soldiers are more ruthless than ever. Sadie ignores the warnings, as she weaves through the cobbled streets with the pram. But is her desperation to keep the connection between mother and child putting them all into the soldiers’ sights?

A completely haunting and heartbreaking book about the bravest of all mothers and the terrible sacrifices made as the streets of Paris crawled with enemy soldiers. Fans of The Nightingale, The Midwife of Auschwitz and The Alice Network will be swept away by The Baby in her Arms.