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Ninety-one-year-old Gretel Fernsby has lived for many years in one of five flats in a palatial house in the heart of London. She leads a comfortable, quiet life, despite her dark and disturbing past. She never talks about how she fled Germany after the war. She doesn't talk about the post-war years she spent with her mother in France. And most of all, she never talks about her father, the commander of one of the Nazis' infamous concentration camps.

And then a young family moves into the downstairs apartment. Gretel unwillingly befriends the little boy Henry, though his presence stirs memories she would rather forget forever. One night, she witnesses a confrontation between Henry's mother and his abusive father, and her hard-won, reclusive existence is suddenly threatened.

Gretel is given the opportunity to cleanse herself of her sins, rid herself of guilt, grief and remorse, and save the little boy. But that means she must reveal her true identity to the world. Will she choose differently this time and be able to bear the consequences of her actions?

You Can't Run From Yourself, the loose sequel to the international bestseller The Boy in the Striped Pajamas, brings readers the beautiful and dramatic story of a woman who must deal with the sins of the past and the threat of the present. It's still not too late to be heroic.

Czech edition