L'Orpheline d'Auschwitz

by Anna Stuart

512 pages

Published February 4, 2026

About the author

I wanted to be an author from the moment I could pick up a pen and was writing boarding-school novels by the age of nine. I made the early mistake of thinking I ought to get a ‘proper job’ and went into Factory Planning – a career that gave me some wonderful experiences, amazing friends and even a fantastic husband, but didn’t offer much creative scope. So when I stopped to have children I took the chance to start the ‘improper job’ of writing. During the baby years I wrote in the brief gaps provided by sleeps, playschools and obliging grandparents, publishing short stories and serials in all the women’s magazines.

But my ultimate aim was to write longer fiction and several years ago I published a series of successful historical novels under the pseudonym Joanna Courtney. I will continue to publish under that name but am delighted, as Anna Stuart, to also be able to write contemporary fiction. Bonnie and Stan is a true to life romance set in both the present day and sixties Liverpool and Four Minutes to Save a Life is a domestic drama about how small acts of kindness might just change the world!

Reviews

[Axelle Boulanger · Rating 3 out of 5]

L'histoire tourne en rond. Tasha regrette de ne pas retrouver sa mère. Alice se dénigre, aime les enfants, et cherche son frère. Georg est optimiste. Voilà. Un peu déçue de cette histoire...

[Alice · Rating 5 out of 5]

Un excellent livre sur l'après ! Mon préféré de cette autrice !