This has to be the ultimate choice for me. It's terrifying partly because it's a true story about a girl's family trying to stay alive in Nazi Europe, of course. The facts alone are terrifying. But that's not the only reason I've chosen it, or even the main one. Tragic millions appallingly lost their lives in concentration camps but it is always Anne we seem to go back to. And the reason is simply that she was a life-force. She was such a torrent of beauty and truth. The most terrible crime in the world is to take something wonderful and wilfully destroy it, and that's what happens. Re-reading Anne's diary extracts as an adult is an even more devastating experience than as a teenager, and I think I know why. It's because as you get a little older you become a bit more savvy about assessing human nature. By the time you get to 40, you've met enough other people to know just what an extraordinary vivid girl the teenage Anne Frank was. She's so full of life that as you reach the final few entries of her diary you slow down, as if you can somehow miraculously keep her alive just by not reading those last paragraphs.
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