looked closer at the body, she realised one thing, this isn’t Mirjam. In Monica Hesse’s novel, Girl in the Blue Coat, Hanneke, a black market dealer during the Holocaust, is tasked with a near impossible job: find a Jewish girl, Mirjam, who goes missing without a trace. With only a description and an hour time frame of the disappearance, Hanneke takes the job. Throughout the novel, Hanneke defies all odds to safely find Mirjam, whether it was lying to her parents or kissing her dead boyfriend’s brother…
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