Tamar - A Story of Secrecy and Survival (Electronic book text)

A moving story about love, lies and secrets in a time of war, winner of the 2005 Carnegie Medal. When her grandfather dies, Tamar inherits a box containing a series of clues and coded messages. Out of the past, another Tamar emerges, a man involved in the terrifying world of resistance fighters in Nazi-occupied Holland half a century earlier. His story is one of passionate love, jealousy and tragedy set against the daily fear and casual horror of the Second World War. Unravelling it will transform the younger Tamar's life...