Description A powerful and deeply humane new novel that asks the question: What if Anne Frank survived the Holocaust? The year is 1945, and Anne Frank is sixteen years old.
In writing this book he has spent six years researching Anne Frank and her world, immersing himself in the available material and traveling to important landmarks of her life..
After moving to New York City, Gillham spent more than a decade in the book business, and he now lives with his family in Western Massachusetts.
He studied screenwriting at the University of Southern California before transitioning into fiction.
Gillham is the New York Times bestselling author of City of Women.
About the author David R.
Gillham explores with breathtaking empathy the woman--and the writer--she might have become.
In this masterful new novel, David R.
But she was also a person--a precocious young girl with a rich inner life and tremendous skill as a writer.
Anne Frank is a cultural icon whose diary painted a vivid picture of the Holocaust and made her an image of humanity in one of history\'s darkest moments.
A story of trauma and redemption, Annelies honors Anne Frank\'s legacy as not only a symbol of hope and perseverance, but also a complex young woman of great ambition and heart.
As Anne struggles to overcome the brutality of memory and build a new life for herself, she grapples with heartbreak, grief, and ultimately the freedom of forgiveness.
Her beloved diary has been lost, and her dreams of becoming a writer seem distant and pointless now.
Anne is adrift, haunted by the ghosts of the horrors they experienced, while Pim is fixated on returning to normalcy.
But it\'s not as easy to fit the pieces of their life back together.
Having survived the concentration camps, but lost her mother and sister, she reunites with her father, Pim, in newly liberated Amsterdam.
Description A powerful and deeply humane new novel that asks the question: What if Anne Frank survived the Holocaust? The year is 1945, and Anne Frank is sixteen years old
