Rabbit Girls by Anna Ellory

After the Berlin wall falls in 1989, Miriam, who has been living in East Berlin, goes back  to West Berlin to care for her dying father. She is fleeing an abusive husband, and is escaping both him and an abusive regime.

In caring for her father, she finds an Auschwitz tattoo on his wrist. She never knew he was in a concentration camp, so starts looking for answers to questions she never knew she had. Her mother is dead, but in her belongings she finds a uniform from a prison camp. Sewn into the linings she finds letters from a mysterious woman named Frieda.

She desperately needs answers, but her father is semi-comatose, and unable to tell her what she needs to know. Will she be able to unravel the secrets of her parent's past?



390 pages