MY ENEMY'S CRADLE goes to the very heart of hope and how it can survive in even the darkest and most dangerous of times., Tenderly and fiercely felt, Young''s tale of a young Jewish woman trapped in the sinister web of the Nazi Lebensborn program is that true find, a story truly never before told. Young's research is so scrupulous that when devouring this novel, you'll swear you're reading a genuine survivor account."-Jenna Blum, author of Those Who Save Us, In this compelling first novel set against the little known Nazi Lebensborn program, Sara Young creates a heroine the reader will not easily forget - Cyrla, a young woman trying to keep her infant safe while hiding a dangerous secret. And it invokes, with a bit of an ache, Anne Frank's optimistic belief in happy endings."- USA Today "Sara Young shines a powerful flashlight on one of the lesser-known Nazi atrocities: the thievery of children from their mothers. Intensely romantic in a way that only wartime fiction can be. I was hooked from page one, and found the ending to be one of the most satisfying I''ve read in a long time., PRAISE FOR MY ENEMY'S CRADLE "Young's youthful characters-especially her heroine, Cyrla-are utterly believable, their longings, fears and hopes etched with an authenticity and sense of urgency that make this story vibrate on the page. Sara Young writes with the intelligence and authority of an historian, but also with the sensitivity, precision, insight and grace of a poet.
What a story! MY ENEMY''S CRADLE offers intrigue, suspense, compassion, heartbreak and joy. Part love story and part elegy for the terrible choices we must often make to survive, MY ENEMY'S CRADLE keens for what we lose in war and sings for the hope we sometimes find. If she takes refuge in the enemy's lair, can Cyrla fool the doctors, nurses, guards, and other mothers-to-be? Can she escape before they discover she is not who she claims? Mining a lost piece of history, Sara Young takes us deep into the lives of women living in the worst of times. Cyrla must choose between certain discovery in her cousin's home and taking Anneke's place in the Lebensborn-Cyrla and Anneke are nearly identical. And then in the space of an afternoon, life falls apart.
The Nazis are imposing more and more restrictions she won't be safe there for long. Someone knows that Cyrla, sent from Poland years before for safekeeping with her Dutch relatives, is Jewish. But Anneke's soldier has disappeared, and Lebensborn babies are only ever released to their father's custody- or taken away. Her cousin, Anneke, is pregnant and has passed the rigorous exams for admission to the Lebensborn, a maternity home for girls carrying German babies.
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