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If you love page-turning historical fiction, you’re in the right place. I’m so proud readers will soon be able to immerse themselves in the dangers and secrets of postwar Germany in my debut novel, FINDING CLARA coming March 5, 2o2o in the UK, soon after as THE GERMAN HEIRESS in the USA and other territories.
About the book
The story follows Clara Falkenberg, one of the last survivors of a once-powerful industrial family in Essen. In 1946, she comes out of hiding to search for her missing friend.
A battle-scarred black marketeer holds the key to her quest: a boy soldier, underground since the war, who refuses to believe the war is over.
To uncover the truth about the boy, Clara must excavate her past in the ruins of one of Germany’s most devastated cities. How guilty is she? Can good intentions weigh as heavily as her crimes? What future does she deserve?
Recent Posts: Postwar Germany
Children at war
How does modern Germany present WW2 to school kids? As my kids have gotten older, I’ve wondered at what age they’ll begin to learn about the war and Germany’s responsibility for what it did to so many countries in Europe. I knew that high school-age kids learn about it, but how young can children be […]
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Literary Agent Laetitia Rutherford
Watson Little, Ltd, London
Finding Clara: Hutchinson, PenguinRandomHouse, London
The German Heiress: William Morrow, Harper Collins, New York
For translation queries, please contact Hutchinson
Is it one book or two?
FINDING CLARA and THE GERMAN HEIRESS are the same book with two different titles, the first in the UK market, the second in North America. So depending on where you are, you’ll see one title and cover or the other. The story, though, is just the same.