Winner of the 2013 Virginia Prize As heard on BBC Radio 4's Book at Bedtime "Deftly told in short, punchy chapters, the thriller is a page-turner that shifts from East to West and the dark days of the 1980s to present reunification." - The Evening Times The year is 1985. East Germany is in the grip of communism. Magda, a brilliant but disillusioned young linguist, is desperate to flee to the West. When a black market deal brings her into contact with Robert, a Scottish research student at Leipzig University, she conceives a plan to escape. Robert...
Winner of the 2013 Virginia Prize As heard on BBC Radio 4's Book at Bedtime "Deftly told in short, punchy chapters, the th...