For fans of Jackie French and Katrina Nannestad, The Year We Escaped is a heart-stopping and remarkable World War II story by talented author Suzanne Leal.<br/><br/>Europe, 1940<br/><br/>With war on their doorstep, German classmates Klara and Rachel, and French brothers Lucien and Paul, are forced to leave their homes. They are taken to Gurs, a French detention camp in the south-west of France. It's a crowded place, with little comfort and even less food.<br/><br/>When Klara and Rachel are promised safe refuge in a remote French village, Lucien and Paul are anxious to join them - and will risk their own lives to get there.<br/><br/>Filled with adventure, danger and intrigue, this is the story of four unlikely friends desperate to escape from a war that keeps coming closer.