I was fourteen and a half when the Germans came.
In this exquisite novel, readers will find the crystalline prose and depth of feeling they adored in Out Stealing Horses , a literary sensation of 2007..
On that 9th April we woke to the roar of aeroplanes swooping so low over the roofs of the town that we could see the black iron crosses painted on the underside of their wings when we leaned out of the windows and looked up.
I was fourteen and a half when the Germans came