During World War II Eva reluctantly becomes a document forger in Aurignon, a small French mountain town in the free zone.

Some books hone in on a certain attribute – gender neutral names, say – which mean you are cutting out any names that don’t fit your remit before you’ve even begun. There is so much love and caring breathed into the characters, making it one of the most endearing and beautiful stories.

I truly wanted to love this novel because the story sounded so intriguing but, my goodness, did I struggle to get to the end! Gayle Lynds, "New York Times" bestselling author of "The Last Spymaster""The Book of Names grabs you on page one and doesn't let you go. Klaristenfeld navigated through the massive Book of Names at Auschwitz-Birkenau and found the names of his grandmother’s parents and other relatives. Makes false identity cards for herself and her mother so that they can pass as non-Jews, immediately reveals her true indentity to everyone she meets. Not only do you get pretty weird short stories but the narrator, NIGEL PEEVER has become one of my favorites as he takes the stories and gives them a creepy life of their own.

Because of the way the story was narrated, the romantic passages left me cold and I felt like slapping Eva round the face whenever she revealed carefully guarded secrets and falsified identities. They're collected in themes - months of the year, flowers, colours and food - and there's Julia's whimsy as well as rhythm and rhyme to enjoy. By using the Web site, you confirm that you have read, understood, and agreed to be bound by the Terms and Conditions.Eva’s first partner, Remy, created a code for entering the names of the Jewish children that are being smuggled into Switzerland using the false identities they created. I know I'm going against the grain here, but I'm afraid, for me at least, this novel doesn't deserve more than 2 stars.

They can leave a child open to ridicule or ensure they spend their lives having to clarify spelling or resign them to sharing their name with another classmate or two.

Avram said he expects the pages of the new book to be as worn from touch by visitors seeking the names of their family members as are the pages of the Book of Names exhibited at Auschwitz. Even my daughter's name is in it, reminding us of the special time we were able to get a signed book. The ties to her family and to her cause pull her in opposing directions, and she must make life changing decisions. It is carefully arranged in that there isn’t too much crammed onto each page which we think can be overwhelming. Did this newspaper article actually show the book she had used during the war to put children's names in that they had to change to protect their identity?

Eva discovers from her desperation to save her mother and leave Paris, she’s has a talent for forgery and she can help others and the French resistance. When Yad Vashem was created in 1953 on the slopes of Jerusalem’s Mount of Remembrance to commemorate the Holocaust, its founders understood that one of the central functions of the institution would be to document the names of the 6 million Jewish victims. Torn between her belief and care for her mother on one side and her love for a Catholic man and loyalty to the people she has come to care about Eva has to make some tough decisions, and life itself is at stake, especially when you don't know who you can trust.While we never see the horrors of the death camps in this novel, we see the heartbreaking impact on so many, especially children, whose mothers and fathers were rounded up by the Nazis sent to those camps, killed there or before they get there. In addition to a long magazine writing career (which also included articles published in Travel + Leisure, Glamour, Ladies’ Home Journal, Every Day with Rachael Ray, and more), Kristin was also a frequent contributor to the national television morning show The Daily Buzz—where her assignments included flying to London three times to interview the cast of the Harry Potter films. When the Nazis tried to deprive the Jews of any sense and resemblance of being human beings, and put numbers on their arms instead of names before murdering them, we thought it’s our duty to give each one of them a name, a face and a history. She wasn’t worried her daughter might get captured, no she only wanted to break into a jail/camp whatever and save her husband.