The Aftermath by Rhidian Brook

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Hamburg, 1946. Thousands remain displaced in what is now the British Occupied Zone. Charged with overseeing the rebuilding of this devastated city and the de-Nazification of its defeated people, Colonel Lewis Morgan is requisitioned a fine house on the banks of the Elbe, where he will be joined by his grieving wife, Rachael, and only remaining son, Edmund.

But rather than force its owners, a German widower and his traumatized daughter, to leave their home, Lewis insists that the two families live together. In this charged and claustrophobic atmosphere all must confront their true selves as enmity and grief give way to passion and betrayal.

The Aftermath is a stunning novel about our fiercest loyalties, our deepest desires and the transformative power of forgiveness.

‘A moving, always enthralling journey … Rhidian Brook has written a brilliant novel’ Joseph O’Neill, author of Netherland

The Aftermath is a stunning novel about our fiercest loyalties, our deepest desires and the transforming power of forgiveness.

‘Arresting, unsettling and compelling; suffused with suffering and hope’ Claire Messud, author of The Emperor’s Children

The Aftermath is being developed as a feature film by Ridley Scott’s production company Scott Free and BBC Films.

Postwar Hamburg is the backdrop for British writer Brook’s (The Testimony of Taliesin Jones) emotionally charged third novel, which is inspired by his family history. British Col. Lewis Morgan is stationed in the German city in 1946. He requisitions a house for his family, but instead of casting out its German owners (the standard procedure), he allows them to remain. Brook’s chilling observations of Hamburg’s defeated inhabitants and the fantastic destruction that lay all around are unnerving and riveting. Feral children, he writes, beg for cigarettes and chocolates, and Rubble Runners clean up the remains of bombed-out buildings in exchange for food vouchers. But the novel’s smaller stage—the home that Morgan; his wife, Rachael; and their son, Edmund, share with Stefan Lubert and his daughter, Freda—tells the bigger story. The blended families are uncomfortable with their new relationship, and the toxic effects of unassuaged grief for lost love ones complicates the situation.

Fans of WWII-era historical fiction will be drawn to this novel.

Product details:
Print Length: 336 pages
Publisher: Penguin (May 2, 2013)
Sold by: Amazon Digital Services, Inc.
Language: English
ASIN: B00AFNKIEK

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