WHAT THE AUTHOR SAYS

“When I give talks to creative writing workshops, I always ask this of my students: without referring to the plot, tell me in a few sentences what your novel is about,” Boyne writes in an author’s note at the end of his new novel. “If I were to answer this question about All the Broken Places, I’d say that it’s a novel about guilt, complicity and grief, a book that sets out to examine how culpable a young person might be, given the historical events unfolding around her, and whether such a person can ever cleanse themselves of the crimes committed by the people she loves.”