A beautiful picture-book adaptation of Thomas Harding\'s Costa-shortlisted biography for adults, exquisitely illustrated by Britta Teckentrup.
With words that read like a haunting fairy-tale, and magnificent artwork by Britta Teckentrup, this is the astonishing true Story of the House by the lake.show more.
Thomas Harding first shared this remarkable Story in his Costa-shortlisted biography The House by the Lake - now he has rendered it into a deeply moving picture-book for young readers.
Over the course of a century, this little House played host to a loving Jewish family, a renowned Nazi composer, wartime refugees and a Stasi informant; in that time, a world war came and went, and the Berlin Wall was built a stone\'s throw from the cottage\'s back door.
On the outskirts of Berlin, a wooden cottage stands on the shore of a lake.
A beautiful picture-book adaptation of Thomas Harding\'s Costa-shortlisted biography for adults, exquisitely illustrated by Britta Teckentrup
