Child of the Ruins

by Kate Furnivall

First published 2023

Amazon

4.3(2,626)

Berlin, 1948. The war is over but the city remains divided between the Allied powers, and the Soviet blockade has cut the western sectors off from normal road, rail and water supplies. Anna and Ingrid live among the ruins while American and British aircraft fly day and night into Berlin, bringing food and fuel to a population trapped inside the confrontation.

Both women are searching for answers connected with a missing child, and both carry grievances born from the war's aftermath. Soviet security forces, black-market survival and the uncertainty of occupation make trust dangerous as their stories converge. The novel places personal revenge and family loss inside the Berlin Airlift, showing the moment when wartime alliance hardened into open Cold War rivalry.