In this episode we will be talking to author Debra Barnes all about her book 'The Young Survivors', how she found the writing process, her inspiration for the book, and much more. The Young Survivors is written from the point of view of three Jewish children living in France and follows their lives throughout World War Two. 

"What if everyone you loved was suddenly taken away? Five siblings struggle to stay together as the tides of war threaten to tear them apart. When Germany invades France in the Second World War, the five Laskowski children lose everything: their home, their Jewish community and most devastatingly their parents who are abducted in the night. There is no safe place left for them to evade the Nazis, but they cling together, never certain when the authorities will come for what is left of them.

Inspired by the poignant, true story of the author's mother, this moving historical novel conveys the hardship, the uncertainty and the impossible choices the Laskowski children were forced to make to survive the horrors of the Holocaust."