Donna Tartt: LITTLE FRIEND N/E [2005] paperback Condition:Good British women married to Germans

British women married to Germans became 'enemy aliens' in their own country

Her best friend

As the gallant unexpected guest

this was a bizarrely euphoric time when London became the setting for intense love affairs and surreal beauty

Esperanto failed to stem the continent's bloodletting

Donna Tartt: LITTLE FRIEND N/E [2005] paperback Condition:Good British women married to GermansTwelve year old Harriet is doing her best to grow up, which is not easy as her mother is permanently on medication, her father has silently moved to another city, and her serene sister rarely notices anything. All of them are still suffering from the shocking and mysterious death of her brother Robin twelve years earlier, and it seems to Harriet that the family may never recover. So, inspired by Captain Scott, Houdini, and Robert Louis Stevenson, she