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In pre-war Germany, two boys grow up together inseparable. However as adulthood approaches and Nazism continues its inexorable march, Dahl and Quantz can no longer reconcile their childhood friendship as one becomes an SS officer and the other a pawn in the intelligence unit.
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Stevie Davies's previous books include Impassioned Clay and Unbridled Spirits. She has won the Fawcett Book Prize, been long-listed for the Booker Prize and been shortlisted twice for the Arts Council of Wales Book of the Year Prize and the Portico Prize. She is a respected historian and literary critic who reviews regularly for the Independent, holds an honorary appointment as Senior Lecturer at Roehampton Institute and is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. She lives near Manchester.
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'Resonating with poignant imagery, this outstanding novel examines the best and worst of human nature' The Times
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- PublisherThe Women's Press
- Publication date2001
- ISBN 10 0704347059
- ISBN 13 9780704347052
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages253
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