When We Were Ashes
Presley Robertson
, Emily Johansen
, Marissa Yip-Young
, Joseph Chirayil
, Paula Adam
, Jude Castillo
, Sandra Lackie
, Brad MULLER
, Lynn Mullen
, Marilyn Stanley
, Helene Fuhr
, Katie Kah
, Pamela Bruce
, Ryan Woods
, Mary Montague
, Joe Mitchell
, Agnes Marshall
, Sandra Furlotte
, Kelli Hodder
, Natasha Andres
, Dot Mann
, cassandra schiemann
, Anita Jones
, Alice Meems
, Mitchell Schmidt
, Louise Walsh
, Arvia Chen
, Tami Osato
, toni velthuis
, Deana Bueley
, Sharon Forzley
, Dorothy Wong
, Cheryl Johnson
, Patricia Johnson
, Mary Therrien
, Noelle Walsh
, Joanna McFarlane-Frampton
, Julie Farmer
, Barry Kazimer
, anna cairns
, Wayne Harrigan
, Sarah Schwartz
, Joshua Lewis
, Elle Kishia
, Margo Beredjiklian
, Emily Steiner
, Grace Klein
, Holly Elisabeth
, Lesley Sturge
, Brittney Warren
, Laurie Burns
, Andrea Pole
, joy mills
, Joe Titone
, LISA NELSON
, Margaret McKay
, Robert Hykawy
, Maria Mclean
, Filomena Falocco
, Sara Conway
, Jeff Eaves
, Keltey Buchko
, Alanna Virtue
, Susan Fitzgerald
, Cindy Bodini
, Janette Galan
, Leah Ludwig
, Penny Connolly
, Kathryn Galan
, Vicki Bedford
, Richard Scarsbrook
, Lesley Cameron
, Lynn Bechtel
, Christine Lion
, Leslie Vermeer
, Edward Dalton
, Chuk Goodin
, Lindsey Andronak
, Karen LeBlanc
, Charles Leblanc
, Olivia Pellegrino
, Shawna Moodie
, Marla Schecter Howard
, Benita Hartwell
, Beth Dekoker
, Paula Ritchie
, Margo Walton
, Duane Lowe
, Donna Gamache
, Christa Seeley
, Morgan Jefferies
, Huguette Lemieux
, Stephen Pinder
, Tema Frank
, Rachel Edmonds
, Kartik Gupta
, Donna Roucoulet
, Daniel Klein
, diana kirkwood
, Rose Hately
, Lynn Tait
, Susan Jang
, Barbara Leckie
, Elizabeth Blondin
, Ken Gilmour
, Rodney Cross
, Janice Cournoyer
, Jennifer Morse
, Kym Marsh
, Karen Kendrick
, Kim Patrick
, Lisa Mallia
, Jessica Gilbert
, Mary Mexis
, GLORIA KONELSKY
, Mary Woods
, Shonna Froebel
, Jayne Shewman
, Jane McRobb
, Kat Sommer-Derksen
, Sarah Van Dyk
, Betty Spry
, Chris Lantz
, Michelle Arsenault
, Roland Schigas
, Michelle Canfield
, Remi Gunn
, Rosa Cross
, Kim Carswell
, Margaret Palmer
, Melissa Poremba
, Itraa Gold
, Jill Handrigan
, Catherine Westerberg
, Cherryl Koylass
, Debra Fisher
, kristine hibbs
, Jennifer Beyak
, Pamela Humphrey
, Heather Norris
, Neha Faisal
, Shelley Butcher
, Kevin Smith
, Nora Gould
, Janet Hosokawa
, Stephanie Trotter
, Leila Grobel
, David Janik Jones
, Janet Miller
, Melissa Dingwall
, Gabrielle Wolfe
, Audrionna Oliver
, SI Parker
, Sarah Dalton
, Shayla Bradley
, Cathy L Brown
, Vivian Thorgeirson
, Margaret Anglin
, Tanis Anne
, Sahar Sa
, Heather More
, Shonelle Wilkinson
, M M English
, Heather Belliveau
, Patricia McKeown
, Mary Campbell
, BJ Underwood
, Jann Forgeron
, Gloria Wilson
, lesley johnston
, Lisa Bilodeau
, Huguette Settle
, Crystal Inwood
, Sharon Bird
, Georgia Aliphtiras
, Kim Cappellina
, Claire Gear
, Michelle Power
, P. Thompson
, PATRICIA SOPEL
, Lynn Andrews
, Barbara Crossman
, Gwynn Scheltema
, Nancy Reid
, Virginia Reddin
, Allison Dube
, Sabrina Phan
, Melissa Kohlman
, Dana Derks
, Dian Anderson
, Christine Labelle
, Amanda Schempp
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When the grey bus came to take Rainor Schacht and his friends in the ward for disabled children to a remote hospital called Trutzburg, they had no idea what dark reality awaited them.
No one would tell them what to expect — not Nurse Hilde; not Peter Berger, the kind bus driver; not Dr. Lutz, who ran the Nazi hospital with ruthless efficiency.
Years later, with Berger’s coded diary in hand, Rainor sets out to find Emmi, a fellow survivor of Trutzburg, who looked past Rainor’s disfigurement and elicited the magic that gave purpose to Rainor and solace to Emmi and the other children.
Set against the backdrop of the Second World War, Andrew Boden’s When We Were Ashes takes us to the chilling depths of Aktion T4, one of the darkest chapters in the history of Nazi Germany. In this hauntingly poignant novel, Rainor is led on an illuminating journey to learn the truth about his past and the even more extraordinary truth about his present.
