All the Broken Places is a sequel to Boyne's 2006 book The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas and follows Gretel, the now 91-year-old older sister of Bruno from that book. Gretel has lived in London for decades, never speaking of her childhood in Nazi Germany as the daughter of a concentration camp commandant. Her life is upended when a new family moves in downstairs whose circumstances force her to confront her own past.^[1] Gretel serves as the narrator of the novel, which is broken into sections labelled as three parts, two interludes, and an epilogue. Each section is also labelled with the time period and location of the action of that section; parts one, two, and three each include two time periods and locations.