![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Funder captures perfectly the sense of her characters' deprived and dangerous lives' Daily Mail 'A superb novel that transcends its setting. ![]() In what she has to say about love, loss and betrayal there is profound truth' The Times 'An often pacy and exciting read. 'The strengths of Funder's writing are emotional and imaginative. But England is not the safe-haven they think it to be, and a single, chilling act of betrayal will tear them apart. Here they take breath-taking risks in order to continue their work in secret. Dora, passionate and fearless, her lover, the great playwright Ernst Toller, her younger cousin Ruth and Ruth's husband Hans find refuge in London. United in their resistance to the madness and tyranny of Nazism, they must flee the country. When Hitler comes to power in 1933, a tight-knit group of friends and lovers become hunted outlaws overnight. Anna Funder, winner of the Samuel Johnson Prize and author of Stasiland, offers a thrilling tale and powerful love story that tells the heroic and tragic true story of the German resistance in World War II in All That I Am. ![]()
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