The Hiding Place

At one time Corrie ten Boom would have laughed at the idea that a book would be written about her -- let alone a best seller. Or that the Billy Graham Association would base a movie on it that would be shown around the world to this day.

For the first 50 years of her life nothing out of the ordinary ever happened to her. She was an old-maid watchmaker living contentedly with her spinster sister and their elderly father in the tiny Dutch house over their shop. Their uneventful days revolved around their love for one another in one of the most captivating families ever caught between the covers of a book.

A schematic drawing of the crooked old house in
Haarlem, Holland that became The Hiding Place
for scores of hunted people.

Yet out of the cauldron of the Second World War emerged one of the towering women of our time, with a message for everyone struggling to live a life of meaning in a world of turmoil. Its only when youve turned the last page that youll realize that you have read more than a spellbinding adventure. You will have in your hands a key to your own deep questions.

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