In our family, not surprisingly given my interest in book reviewing, books are always exchanged at Christmas. My daughter happened to give me The Cut Out Girl by Bart Van Es (Fig Tree. £16.99) which was chosen as Radio 4’s Book of the Week last August. An interview/memoir dealing with the Holocaust from the perspective of a Dutch Jewish woman, hidden as a child during the occupation of Holland, it also raises questions acutely pertinent today: the new undercurrent of anti-Semitism in Europe which is linked to Muslim immigration (briefly alluded to be the author); the nature of child sexual abuse; and what is now recognised as PTSD or Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder.