Annotation
In England in 1995, fifteen-year-old Tamar, grief-stricken by the puzzling death of her beloved grandfather, slowly begins to uncover the secrets of his life in the Dutch resistance during the last year of the Nazi occupation of the Netherlands, and the climactic events that forever cast a shadow on his life and that of his family.
Awards
2007 School Library Journal Best Books of the Year
Characters
| Name | Tamar |
| Gender | Female |
| Occupation | Student |
| Genre | Young adult fiction Historical War |
| Topics | Grief Teenage girls Suicide Grandfathers Inheritance Death and dying Coded messages Resistance fighters World War II False identity Search for truth Betrayal Male friendship Cryptic messages Disguises Misunderstandings Jealousy Identity |
| Setting | England Holland, Netherlands |