The Light in Hidden Places by Sharon Cameron

It changed the world.The extraordinary story of Stefania Podgorska, a Polish teenager who chose bravery and humanity by hiding thirteen Jews in her attic during WWII-from #1 New York Times bestselling author Sharon Cameron.Īlso includes a recorded conversation with author Sharon Cameron and reader Beata Poźniak, discussing Beata's decades long friendship with Stefania Podgórska and the legacy of the Podgórska sisters. Stefania chose, and thirteen lives were forever changed. And it was that small choice that led to the bigger one. The choice was made long before, when Stefania concluded that her skin was just skin, no different than anyone else’s. The truth I found when writing THE LIGHT IN HIDDEN PLACES was about choices, but the choices didn’t begin with the decision to hide one Jew. Facts fade away, but when we feel, we will not forget. What can I do, today, right now, to choose the same thing? I believe story can change the world. The Podgorska sisters chose humanity over hate. But because their choices challenge me every day. And not just because they did heroic things during World War II, which they did. I believe in heroes.Īs soon as I heard the story of 16-year-old Stefania Podgorska and her six-year-old sister Helena hiding thirteen Jews in an attic while four Nazis slept in a bedroom directly below, the sisters became my heroes. I’ve never relied on this process more than when I wrote THE LIGHT IN HIDDEN PLACES. A never-ending cycle that I’ve participated in since the first day I could read. Flame to flame, it’s a process that’s been going on since the beginning of books. Somehow, the reader of my words feels it, too.

I believe in sparks.Īs a writer, I’ve discovered that when I find that burning enthusiasm for the things I love, that spark of passion, and if I let it all that passion out onto the page, it’s like striking a mystical match. I am interested in the vast collection of human experience that has come together to make the world we have today. I’ve probably just assured that Phil Harding, Lucy Worsley, and Stephen Fry will make a snappy exit if we ever find ouselves in the same room. Oh, I’m certain Stephen Fry would be my best friend if he ever happened to meet me. Lucy would confide the locations of all the secret passages in all the castles everywhere, and do so while in costume. Phil would tell me stories about digging up ancient artifacts and probably nap some flint. Stephen Fry, and Phil Harding, the West Country archeologist from Time Team who wore the manky hat. The three people in the world I’d most like to have a cup of tea with. Period costume dramas? Hooray! Murder, mayhem, and bleak Scandie-Noir murder mysteries? Yes, please.

I’m way more into the BBC and ITV than anything from Hollywood.

The Light in Hidden Places by Sharon Cameron