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.