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    "description": "1938, Salzburg. A powerful story of hope, forbidden love, and incredible courage, about three sisters who will risk everything\u2014even their own lives\u2014as part of the resistance movement in Nazi-occupied Austria.\n\nJohanna, Birgit and Lotte Eder have always lived quiet lives, working in their father\u2019s clockmaking shop and helping their mother in the house. But like many other Austrians, they find it impossible to ignore the changes in the world around them.\n\nAt first Johanna finds it hard to believe the Nazis pose a real threat. But then her father hires Franz to help in his shop. He\u2019s kind and soulful, with dark eyes that twinkle with intelligence. But he\u2019s Jewish, and as Johanna falls for him, she realizes that loving him puts them all in danger.\n\nThen comes the Anschluss\u2014the reunification of Austria and Germany under Nazi rule. The three sisters\u2019 lives have become ever more separate with Lotte joining the convent at Nonnberg Abbey and Birgit\u2019s secret involvement with the Resistance. But as Johanna realizes how mistaken she was about the level of danger, she begins to see that it may be down to her to protect the man she loves.\n\nShe knows that she can\u2019t do it alone though. She will have to turn to the people she trusts the most: her sisters.\n\nThe three of them work together to try to get Franz to the safety of Switzerland, and they soon prove invaluable to the Resistance. But they\u2019re risking everything. Can three women who would die for each other, also be prepared to die for what is right?\n\nThe sisters\u2019 subsequent journey from Nazi-occupied Salzburg to the devastating concentration camps of Ravensbruck and Mauthausen will show the strength of human spirit like never before. As, out of the darkness, a tiny seed of hope flowers\u2026\n\nA totally heartbreaking and impossibly powerful story about love, tragedy, and the power of humanity. Perfect for fans of The Nightingale, The Lilac Girls and The Sound of Music.",
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