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The Escape

The Escape

Author(s): Clare Harvey

Location(s): Germany, Berlin

Genre(s): Fiction, Historical

Era(s): 1945, 1989

One winter morning in Germany in early 1945, Detta passes a group of exhausted British prisoners of war who are being force-marched westwards. One man catches her eye and she cannot forget him. The following day she receives an urgent message to contact the local priest: he needs her help.

Miranda is a photography student in Berlin in 1989 as the Wall falls. Trapped in an abusive relationship, her one hope for escape is an old postcard of the village her grandmother, Detta, was born in. As Miranda flees through the rubble of the Berlin wall and into the East, she begins to suspect she’s being followed by the Stasi.

Two very different timelines; two women who share a history and a dark secret. Can they save each other now the time has come to reveal it?

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