Crooked Cross (Classic edition)

PREFACE BY LAURA FREEMAN
380pp
ISBN 9781906462659

A lost classic, first published in 1934, about one ordinary German family destroyed by the rise of the Nazis.

Bavaria. Christmas Eve, 1932. Herr and Frau Kluger and their three children are walking home from church through the snow, chatting excitedly to their neighbours about decorating the Christmas tree. Inside the house, a picture of Hitler sits on the piano. Over the next six months, the Nazi Party’s ascent to power will come to dominate every aspect of the Klugers’ lives, especially that of their daughter Lexa, who is engaged to a doctor named Moritz Weissmann. 

Written by a young British woman from Dorset after she visited Germany in the early 1930s, Crooked Cross captures with astonishing immediacy what it felt like to live through this terrible period in history. This is a prescient, gripping and deeply affecting novel with a propulsive energy to it that stays with you long after the last page. . 

Also available as a Persephone Grey, an Ebook and an Audiobook read by Stephanie Racine.