Well... I'm a little bit confused, the book was supposed to be about a Jewish family going through the crimes and pogroms of WWII, so i thought the beginning would be describing their life pre-war and then we see how the dynamic changes when the Nazis enter Poland.
This obviously didn't happen, it was all about Naomi, the mother, from her early years and then with more focus about her life as a married Jewish woman, maybe because this is book 1 in the series, the author wanted to give us more insight into the story for us to form kind of connection with the characters, which she managed to do.
The storyline wasn't an original one, it felt like reading a women's fiction book from the 1960s, but that said though, it wasn't bad, it started a little bit rocky, but after the first few chapters i was really invested in the plot.
The characters were ones you could Invision clearly in your mind, sometimes the writing was a little bit basic on how their thoughts were shown, but that didn't take from the essence of the story.
I quite enjoyed it.
* I received an ARC of this book through netgalley and the publisher*