After by Morris Gleitzman
Genre: Middle Grade, Young Adult,
Historical Fiction
Source: Purchased
This
is the fourth book in the series. We go back in time to catch up with what had
happened to Felix. Gabriek, whose wife was hiding young Felix and Zelda are
dead. Gabriek if part of a resistance movement and has continued to hide Felix
in a hole in his barn. On his thirteenth birthday Felix can hear people above
him talking. He follows them into the woods. He assumes they are Nazis and are
going to kill Gabriek and he yells to give Gabriek a chance to escape. He soon
learns that Gabriek is not in danger. When they return to the farm it is on
fire. Gabriek is injured and so Felix takes him back into the woods to get
help. They are allowed to stay. They do make Felix prove himself. Once again he
is an assistant to the doctor. It is his experiences throughout his childhood
of helping assist doctors that made him a well known doctor in his adult life.
In this book Felix is once again put into the position of helping save three
sisters. He has matured considerably.
Now that he knows who Hitler is he no longer prays to him, but to Richmal
Crompton who was a well known author at the time. I still found this a funny occurrence.
The tension has gone up a notch in this book and I can’t wait to read the next
one.