Description
About the Author
Petra Hammesfahr, born in 1951, has not had an easy life: she left school at thirteen and became pregnant by an alcoholic husband at seventeen. It is a life that has provided inspiration for her bittersweet family crime novels where the sweetness of childhood and the horror of adults meet. Hammesfahr has written over twenty crime and suspense novels and writes scripts for television and film. She has won numerous literary prizes, including the Crime Prize of Wiesbaden and the Rhineland Literary Prize. John Brownjohn is one of Britain's foremost translators from German and French. His work has won numerous awards on both sides of the Atlantic, including the US Pen Prize. He is also a screenwriter whose credits include 'Tess' and 'Bitter Moon'.
Reviews
"In this intelligent novel Hammesfahr has etched with precision the thoughts of a woman on the edge of madness." Der Spiegel "Unrelenting suspense until the bitter end." Stern"
Book Information
ISBN 9781904738251
Author Ms Petra Hammesfahr
Format Paperback
Page Count 344
Imprint Bitter Lemon Press
Publisher Bitter Lemon Press