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The Undertaking

By: Audrey Magee
Narrated by: Adrian Mulraney
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Desperate to escape the Eastern front, Peter Faber, an ordinary German soldier, marries Katharina Spinell, a woman he has never met; it is a marriage of convenience that promises 'honeymoon' leave for him and a pension for her should he die on the front. With 10 days' leave secured, Peter visits his new wife in Berlin; both are surprised by the attraction that develops between them.

When Peter returns to the horror of the front, it is only the dream of Katharina that sustains him as he approaches Stalingrad. Back in Berlin, Katharina, goaded on by her desperate and delusional parents, ruthlessly works her way into the Nazi party hierarchy, wedding herself, her young husband, and their unborn child to the regime. But when the tide of war turns and Berlin falls, Peter and Katharina, ordinary people stained with their small share of an extraordinary guilt, find their simple dream of family increasingly hard to hold on to....

©2014 Audrey Magee (P)2014 Bolinda Publishing Pty Ltd Fiction Genre Fiction Historical Fiction Literary Fiction World Literature Marriage War Dream

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Heart wrenching, honest and clever. Don’t miss it! This is the second book I’ve read by this author and I wait with bated breath for the next one.

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Absolutely gripping read in one sitting. Then dashed hervorhebt book and can’t wait for the next one! 🙌

Great book

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I more feel I know a little more about how ordinary German people suffered during the war. Plus how strong the human spirit was in some of those people.

Brutally brilliant

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