Set in the stunning landscape of North Wales just after D-Day, Peter Ho Daviess profoundly moving first novel traces a perilous wartime romance. Barmaid Esther Evans has lived all of her seventeen years on a sheep farm in Snowdonia, and she yearns for a taste of the wider world. But in the final, harrowing months of World War II, the world unexpectedly comes to her, in the form of a POW camp set up nearby. It is there that she first encounters Karsten, a young German corporal of tormented conscience, struggling to reconcile his surrender with his sense of honor. The consequences of their relationship resonate through the lives of an unforgettable ensemble cast of characters: Esthers proud nationalist father, the resentful English evacuee who lives on the farm, the German-Jewish interrogator sent to Wales to investigate the British Armys most notorious Nazi prisoner, Rudolf Hess. In this thoughtprovoking work, all will come to question where they belong and where their loyalties lie.

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