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The Hat Box cover

  • Paperback Edition
    • 978-1-03-910117-3
    • 5.0 x 8.0 inches
    • Black & White interior
    • 186 pages
  • Hardcover Edition
    • 978-1-03-910118-0
    • 5.0 x 8.0 inches
    • Black & White interior
    • 186 pages
  • Keywords
    • Female friendship,
    • WWII survivor,
    • Holocaust,
    • Jewish children WWII,
    • escaping Germany WWII,
    • Concentration camps,
    • Intergenerational friends

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The Hat Box
by Cheryl C. Bertrand


In the wake of her father’s death, Katherine decides to volunteer at a nursing home. There she meets Hanna, a charming elderly woman with painful secrets, stored in an old hat box. Little by little, as their friendship progresses, Hanna’s story unfolds, reaching back to WWII Germany and a family torn apart in the onset of the Holocaust. Is there anything Katherine can do, in the present, to mend the fractures in Hanna’s past? The Hat Box is a heartwarming story of friendship, loss, and survival.


Cheryl C. Bertrand worked in several nursing homes in nursing for over thirty years, experiencing first-hand the way residents and their care givers come to know each other’s life stories. Since retiring, she’s continued to work in her local nursing home as a volunteer. She lives with her husband in Clinton, Ontario. The Hat Box is her first novel.


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