I was fourteen and a half when the Germans came. On that 9th April we woke tothe roar of aeroplanes swooping so low over the roofs of the town that we couldsee ... » 

I was fourteen and a half when the Germans came. On that 9th April we woke tothe roar of aeroplanes swooping so low over the roofs of the town that we couldsee the black iron crosses painted on the underside of their wings when weleaned out of the windows and looked up. In this exquisite novel readerswill find the crystalline prose and depth of feeling they adored in OutStealing Horses a literary sensation of 2007. A brother and sister are forcedever more closely together after the suicide of their grandfather. Theirparents neglect leaves them wandering the streets of their small Danishvillage. The sister dreams of escaping to Siberia but it seems increasinglydistant as she helplessly watches her brother become more and more involved inresisting the Nazis. «