The Hidden

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Dora, Joe, and Geoffrey are living out their retirement comfortably when their worlds are shattered by the arrival of Barbara Hummel, a young German anxious to track down the ident ity of a mysterious woman whose photograph she finds amongst her mother’s possessions.As the truth of what happened under theoccupation begins to be revealed, the lives of Dora, a Jewish refugee, and Joe, a Catholic priest, begin to unravel in shocking and surprising ways. The consequences of the lives they lived under the Germans and the lies that followedare as unexpected as they are devastating.THE HIDDEN is a heart-rending and provocative story of love and abandonment, shame andsurvival, that casts a light onto the forgotten shadows of the war in occupied Jersey. Show more