I wanted to give this story a full five stars so bad, the story itself would have deserved it but there is this one niggle I have. Nila Aye graduated from Central St Martins with a sell-out show in 1995, and has been a firm favourite of the London illustration scene ever since.

I truly wanted to love this novel because the story sounded so intriguing but, my goodness, did I struggle to get to the end!Full of brightness, fun and irresistible charm, Nila's illustrations are loved by children and adults alike, and they have won her admiration from publishers around the globe. We have been collecting the names of the individual Holocaust victims since 1954, mainly through Pages of Testimony,” said Alexander Avram, director of Yad Vashem’s Hall of Names and the Central Database of Shoah Victims’ Names. Focusing on names from nature, names inspired by history, names that rhyme and names that are beautifully unusual, this is simply a celebration of readers and a book full of joy.

They used to affect me a lot but I guess now since I’ve read more than average I’m more difficult to impress? I really wanted to like this book, the premise was really intriguing, but I did not like the execution. Gayle Lynds, "New York Times" bestselling author of "The Last Spymaster" "The Book of Names grabs you on page one and doesn't let you go.You can expect to find names from as far back as 1700 – we were impressed with Pickering’s attention to detail and witty explanations. Eva Traube Abrams is an 85 year old librarian when she sees a picture in a newspaper that causes her to fly off to Berlin.

I thought it was such a worthwhile story to read, but I took off a star since the ending, while touching, was predictable and didn’t strike me as realistic. Before the uprising and the liquidation of the Warsaw Ghetto, the Archive was buried for safekeeping.A Jewish forger who helped forge the papers of Jewish children in France to send them to Switzerland. Each one who died deserves to be remembered as an individual, and not only as part of a nameless collective,” Dayan said.

There is a lot to consider – names can be an indicator of so many things including class, status, religion and culture. The main A-Z list is interspersed with shorter lists with titles like “Five Tree Names That Would Make Great Baby Names”. Some were sad and unfair and had me hoping for more or better for the main character, especially Alice and Gerald. In the final analysis, I would recommend this for readers who have not read much WWII fiction and who are fans of romance novels.Well Julia Donaldson has kept a list of all the names she's ever signed and here is here round-up of some of them.