Audrey Hepburn has always been an actress I've admired for her poise and beauty .I didn't know a great deal about her and so this book was vastly interesting.
It was well researched, with excerpts from interviews Hepburn gave and quotes from the survivors of Dutch wartime occupation .
It's very harrowing reading at times, you feel for the young Audrey ( as she would become) and see how the depravations of those years affected her adult life . I admire her more , if anything , after reading this book . What a remarkable woman .
With Dutch heritage on her mother's side and British on her father's, she claimed ancestry to both the Dutch nobility and the Hepburn family , Mary Queen of Scots 3rd husband was an ancestor of her Father's.
It was really informative and poignant at times . The death of her uncle at the hands of the Nazis would haunt her ,as would the abandonment of her father at aged 6. She had such a sad early life , it would be really hard not to empathise with the situations that she found herself in.
I really enjoyed this book, I learnt so much about life under Nazi occupation in the Netherlands . It's thought provoking and inspirational at the same time. I thoroughly recommend it.