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BookBrowse Reviews My Enemy's Cradle: Part love story and part elegy for the terrible choices we must sometimes make, set inside a WWII Lebensborn, a maternity home for girls carrying German babies

My Enemy's Cradle
by Sara Young
Paperback, Oct 2008,
384 pages.
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Sara Young tackles both the common and the uncommon in her first adult novel, a love story set against the backdrop of German occupied Holland during World War II. Fiction readers know that the Second World War is a subject often plumbed by novelists, as is the topic of couples forming romantic bonds and enduring separation and danger during wartime. These elements in themselves may be enough to prick the interest of readers who crave a wartime romance, but Young's tale has another element likely to set it apart from the many choices in this genre.

A Nazi program called "Lebensborn" designed to replenish the German army with the babies of girls pregnant by German soldiers is so central to this story that it almost acts as one of the main...
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Sara Young previously has published seven children's book under the pen name Sara Pennypacker, including the Stuart series and the Clementine series. Before becoming an author, she was a painter. She lives on Cape Cod, Massachusetts. For more about her, please see the interview at BookBrowse.


Lebensborn (Fount of Life), founded by Heinrich Himmler in 1935, was originally set up to provide maternity homes and financial assistance to wives of the SS and unmarried...
This review was originally published in January 2008, and has been updated for the October 2008 paperback release. Click here to go to this issue.
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