The Memory Monster 9781914484209 The child has to fix

The child has to fix the puzzle pieces together in the correct manner to form the complete picture

and Hadley decides it might be time to break all her rules

a refugee boy

The outside world knew nothing of the nightmare played out behind closed doors

The Memory Monster 9781914484209 The child has to fixWritten as a report to the chairman of Yad Vashem, Israel's memorial to the victims of the Holocaust, the unnamed narrator of The Memory Monster recounts his own undoing. Hired as a promising young historian, he soon becomes a leading expert on Nazi methods of extermination, guiding tours through the death camps. The job becomes a mission, and then a dangerous obsession. With great perspicuity and the bitterest black humour, The Memory Monster