Their status as refugees means they can’t work but Ruth’s parents, who are German but live in Poland because of a changed border, are wealthy and send money to support them. Ruth, her husband, Hans, and Dora flee to London where they live in limbo.
Together, they become part of the resistance that watches the rise and rise of Hitler and is determined to fight him.īy 1933, Hitler is in control and the members of the resistance are being kidnapped and murdered. The most important person in her life is her older cousin, Dora. And suddenly she’s swept back to growing up in Germany as the Great War rages. She unexpectedly receives a manuscript in the mail it’s an autobiography written by revolutionary Ernst Toller, someone from her former life. Ruth is coming to the end of her life in Sydney’s Bondi Junction. But by the time I finished, none of that seemed to matter.
It’s a fictionalised version of real events and real people so why not just read a history book? It does a lot of info dumping, just like a history book, with too much telling and not enough showing as a means of proving the immense amount of research that has clearly been done. I spent the first half of this book almost positive that it was an entirely unnecessary literary contribution. Follow me on Twitter My Tweets Tags 2 Stars 2.5 Stars 3 Stars 4 stars 5 Stars A Book About Writing Adaptation Advice Amazon Australian Author Australian Fiction Author Black Spot Blog Post Book Book Review Books Chapter One Character Characters Death Development Dialogue Diary Dictionary Editing Employment Enemies Closer English Family Fiction Genre Goodreads Growth History Ideas Inspiration Job Liberty's Secret LinkedIn Marketing Master's Non-Fiction Novel Plot Poems Poetry Poets Practise Project December Project January Project October Publishing Reading Romance Rules Sequel Short Story Sisters Song Lyrics Spelling Stereotypes Study Text Prize Tips Top Ten Trine University Word Count Work Writer Writers Writing Writing Journal Young Adult Archives
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