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Sarah is already in her late twenties with an acting career in London and a baby on the way when she learns from her father about Gaglow, his family's grand East German country estate that was seized before the war. With the fall of the Berlin Wall, the estate will now come back to them. Sarah attempts to solicit from her father all he knows about Gaglow: the three lucky sisters, Bina, Martha, and Eva, and the life of privilege they enjoyed; their masterly governess, Fraulein Schulze, an uncannily beautiful redhead with great feet like a man's; their father, Wolf Belgard, a prosperous Jewish grain dealer whose spirit was rent by the ravages of war; their mother, Marianna, a "vulgar woman" whose children privately mocked her and denied her their love; and their older brother, Emanuel, wrenched from the family to serve his country, adulated and adored by all.

"A shrewdly observant, emotionally astute postmodern version of a family saga....Freud's elegantly uncluttered prose is a pleasure. A skilled, if somewhat uneven, performance."

Kirkus, 03/15/1998

"Esther Freud has written a shrewd and absorbing novel, a near-seamless meshing of family feeling, history and imagination."

Deborah Mason, New York Times Book Review, 05/17/1998

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