Paris, July 1942: Sarah, a ten-year-old girl with the yellow star, is arrested along with her parents in the middle of the night by the French police. Panicking, she takes her little brother to safety, promising to return as soon as possible to free him. Paris, May 2002: Julia Jarmond, an American journalist married to a Frenchman, is assigned to cover the commemoration of the Vél d'Hiv roundup. Sixty years later, her paths cross with Sarah's, and her life changes forever. "Elle s'appelait Sarah" tells the story of two families bound by a terrible secret and offers an evocation of one of the darkest pages of the Occupation. It is a gripping novel about guilt and the necessity of remembrance, which has enjoyed international success, having been translated into thirty-four countries.