Echoes

In the summer of 1915, by the glimmering waters of Lake Geneva, Beata Wittgenstein - the quiet, beautiful eldest daughter of a Jewish family - meets and falls in love with a young French officer. The choice she makes there will shape the rest of her life and the lives of her children.

The story carries forward into the Nazi years. The Wittgensteins are killed during Kristallnacht, and Beata's daughter Amadea, singled out by an unknown informer, is rounded up with other Jews and sent to Theresienstadt.

Danielle Steel moves from the elegant rituals of Europe's prewar aristocracy to the brutal desperation of the camps, telling a story of love, faith and survival across three generations.