From the New York Times bestselling author of the Emily Windsnap series, Liz Kessler, comes a poignant and harrowing story of three young friends whose fates are intertwined during the devastation of the Holocaustbased on a true story.Three friends.

One memory. Vienna. 1936. Three young friendsLeo, Elsa, and Maxspend a perfect day together, unaware that around them Europe is descending into a growing darkness and that they will soon be cruelly ripped apart from one another.

With their lives taking them across Europeto Germany, England, Prague, and Polandwill they ever find their way back to one another?

Will they want to? Inspired by a true story, When the World Was Ours is an extraordinary novel that is as powerful as it is heartbreaking and that shows how the bonds of love, family, and friendship allow glimmers of hope to flourish, even in the most hopeless of times.