At the heart of The Smallest Things is one of Britain’s most beloved authors who took in a Kindertransport child at the advent of World War II and penned a unique story for her. Many years later, when the small, unpublished manuscript comes to light, it triggers a campaign of blackmail and extortion that ultimately leads to a tragic death. Set in stark relief against the dark plot is the compassion of an American widow who asks an emotionally fragile British spinster to be godmother to her adopted child, and the bond of love that forms between the child and the elderly refugee from the Holocaust who found sanctuary in England so very long ago.

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