Waterstones Quarterly

Alix seeks refuge in her deserted ancestral home and is amazed to find her childhood sweetheart, Gregor, there. Two more fugitives arrive but by dawn they are gone and Gregor gone. As the Red Army advances, Alix flees. A story of courage and betrayal during the death throes of the Third Reich.

The Big Issue (North)

September 2008
Restitution

With Europe ravaged in the closing stages of world war two, Russia's advancing Red Army causes the civilian population of Germany to flee in terror. Alix, the aristocratic daughter of a German resistance fighter, is the sole survivor of a brutal attack and begins an incredible but heartbreaking journey.


Alex Donohue