This was a huge award-winner in France and I’m so pleased it has been translated into English. The Postcard tells the harrowing story of a Jewish family’s pain and endurance during the second world war. When in 2003 the Berest family receive an anonymous postcard with the names of their relatives killed in Auschwitz, Anne Berest sets out to uncover who sent the postcard and what happened to her family members. Through pain-staking research Berest leaves her readers aghast at the trauma her family suffered and how it continues to reverberate in future generations. A brilliant, eye-opening read that sits in that murky water of fiction mixed with autobiography.