A spellbinding tale of murder
Andrea Maria Schenkel’s short, dark and utterly compelling fourth novel presents the grim tale of a murder that has been concealed or ignored across almost 20 years of life in an isolated Bavarian village.
In the summer of 1944, after losing her job as a waitress because of a carnal dalliance with a Frenchman, young Afra Zauner has no choice but to return to the small village of her birth, the place she left at just 14 to make her own way in the world, and the questionable and impoverished sanctuary of her parents’ home. The situation becomes exacerbated when it emerges she is pregnant.
