Finalist for the 2019 Foreword Indie Award for General Fiction.
Upon the death of their art-loving parents, thirteen and fourteen year old Jewish sisters are kidnapped by a family friend and taken to a brothel. There they are held captive by their shared shame and by the younger sister's forced addiction to morphine. Love and psychodrama gives them the courage to finally escape Vienna. Once in England, however, Hedy discovers her younger sister Susannah longs to be independent-- and in Italy. But in 1938, despite the safety they each have found among the privileged, they return to Vienna just before Hitler arrives, putting their own lives and those of two children in danger. With the background of anti-Semitism and exploitation, of sex and love and art and dramatic ruses, all during the terrifying rise of fascism in Austria and Italy, Look After Her reveals this truth: no matter how close we are to another human being, even a beloved sister, that's what we are: close-- we all have our own secrets to keep.
| ISBN: | 9781771336734 |
| Publication date: | 30th September 2019 |
| Author: | Hannah Brown |
| Publisher: | Inanna Publications & Education an imprint of Inanna Publications & Education Inc. |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 448 pages |
| Series: | Inanna Poetry & Fiction |
| Genres: |
Historical Fiction Second World War fiction Family Drama |
Finalist for the 2019 Foreword Indie Award for General Fiction.
Upon the death of their art-loving parents, thirteen and fourteen year old Jewish sisters are kidnapped by a family friend and taken to a brothel. There they are held captive by their shared shame and by the younger sister's forced addiction to morphine. Love and psychodrama gives them the courage to finally escape Vienna. Once in England, however, Hedy discovers her younger sister Susannah longs to be independent-- and in Italy. But in 1938, despite the safety they each have found among the privileged, they return to Vienna just before Hitler arrives, putting their own lives and those of two children in danger. With the background of anti-Semitism and exploitation, of sex and love and art and dramatic ruses, all during the terrifying rise of fascism in Austria and Italy, Look After Her reveals this truth: no matter how close we are to another human being, even a beloved sister, that's what we are: close-- we all have our own secrets to keep.
Look After Her features in the following genres: Historical Fiction, Second World War fiction, Family Drama
Look After Her is available in Paperback
Look After Her was written by Hannah Brown and published by Inanna Publications & Education an imprint of Inanna Publications & Education Inc.
Look After Her has 448 pages
Yes it is part of Inanna Poetry & Fiction series
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