Mother Country

Inge was German, half-Jewish, and a Holocaust survivor, all of which she chose to deny. Talented and able, charismatic and infuriating, she surged through life constantly reinventing herself. Sent out of Nazi Germany to the souks of Meknès, she fled a freezing attic in war-torn Brussels to land in a council estate in Birkenhead. London offered the escapee a new start... until her past caught up with her. Triumph finally came in France where nobody knew who she was - least of all the friends who adored her.

After her death, deep secrets emerged. Her daughters knew that she had always misled others - but not that they, too, might be collateral damage. Compelling, frank, and witty, this memoir is part detective story, part daughterly fury.