Book description
I> unites four generations of an extraordinary family in a tale of
loss and love. Summer, 1914. It is Emanuel's twenty-first birthday, and
eleven-year-old Eva and her sisters are helping transform Gaglow for a
glorious party. But their brother's arrival is overshadowed by the talk
of war that comes with him from Hamburg, and when he is wrenched from
the family to serve his country, Eva knows that nothing will be the same
again. Seventy-five years later, with the fall of the Berlin Wall,
Sarah's father begins to tell her about Gaglow, the grand East German
country estate that will now come back to them. Alternating between
Sarah's bohemian life in London and her grandmother's childhood during
the First World War,
Summer at Gaglow<
'A perfectly paced piece of high-calibre
storytelling' 'Evocative and intriguing' 'A shrewd and absorbing
novel, a near-seamless meshing of family feeling, history and
imagination' 'Reading, you become sort of a tourist, delightedly
snooping on how these others live ... Fresh, witty, ironic and
touching'
I> unites four generations of an extraordinary family
in a tale of loss and love. Summer, 1914. It is Emanuel's twenty-first
birthday, and eleven-year-old Eva and her sisters are helping
transform Gaglow for a glorious party. But their brother's arrival is
overshadowed by the talk of war that comes with him from Hamburg, and
when he is wrenched from the family to serve his country, Eva knows
that nothing will be the same again. Seventy-five years later, with
the fall of the Berlin Wall, Sarah's father begins to tell her about
Gaglow, the grand East German country estate that will now come back
to them. Alternating between Sarah's bohemian life in London and her
grandmother's childhood during the First World War, Summer at
Gaglow<
