Summer at Gaglow
By Esther Freud
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Sarah is already in her late twenties with an acting career in London and a baby on the way when she learns from her father about Gaglow, his family's grand East German country estate that was seized before the war. With the fall of the Berlin Wall, the estate will now come back to them.
Sarah attempts to solicit from her father all he knows about Gaglow: the three lucky sisters, Bina, Martha, and Eva; their masterly governess, Fraulein Schulze; their father, Wolf Belgard, a prosperous Jewish grain dealer; their mother, Marianna, a "vulgar woman" whose children privately mocked her; and their older brother, Emanuel, wretched from the family to serve his country.
Alternating between Sarah's life and her grandmother's childhood during the First World War, Summer at Gaglow unites four generations of an extraordinary family across the vast reaches of silence, place, loss, and time.
Esther Freud
Esther Freud trained as an actress before writing her first novel, Hideous Kinky, which was short-listed for the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize and made into a film starring Kate Winslet. After publishing her second novel, Peerless Flats, she was chosen as one of Granta’s Best Young British Novelists. Her other books include The Sea House, Lucky Break, Mr Mac and Me, and I Couldn’t Love You More.
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- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Sarah is already in het late twenties with an acting career in London and a baby on the way when she lerans form her father about Gaglow, his family's grand East German country estate that was seized before the war. With the fall of the Berlin Wall, the estate will come back to them.Sarah attempts to solicit from her father all het knows about Gaglow: the three lucky sisters: Bina, Martha and Eva, their masterly governess, Fraulein Schulze, their father, Wolf Belgard, a prosperous Jewish grain dealer, their mother, Marianna, a 'vulgar woman' whose children provately mocked her, and their older brother Emanuel, wretched from the family to serve his country.Alternating between Sarah's life and her grandmother's childhood during the first world war, Summer in Gaglow unites four generations of an extraordinary family across the vast reaches of silence, place, loss and time.