
Released in 2010 as a major motion picture starring Kristin Scott Thomas Paris July 1942 Sarah a ten year-old Jewish girl is arrested by the French police in the middle of the night along with her mother & father Desperate to protect her younger brother she locks him in a cupboard & promises to come back for him as soon as she can Paris May 2002 Julia Jarmond an American journalist is asked to write about the 60th anniversary of the Vel' d' Hiv'--the infamous day in 1942 when French police rounded up thousands of Jewish men women & children in order to send them to concentration camps Sarah's Key is the poignant story of two families forever linked & haunted by one of the darkest days in France's past In this emotionally intense page-turning novel Tatiana de Rosnay reveals the guilt brought on by long-buried secrets & the damage that the truth can inflict when they finally come unravelled