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Published: May 2014, Scribner
After two or three days of idly reading 60 pages at a time, I suddenly got so hooked that I had to stay up until 2am to finish it. Like many novels set in World War II, All the Light We Cannot See is touching, thought-provoking, and a bit upsetting at times.

Werner is a German boy who ends up fighting in the second world war when he is only sixteen. Marie-Laure is a blind French girl who escapes Paris with her father to Saint-Malo to live with her uncle Etienne. The events unfold over many years, and the two very different perspectives on the war work extremely well and make the story a strikingly touching account of WWII. One of my favourite things about All the Light is the way it gives you a perspective to both sides, and makes you sympathise with (some of) the Germans as well as the French.