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Now made into a film starring star actors Keira Knightly and Alexander Skårsgard

'Grief, revenge, guilt and forgiveness – a pressure cooker of emotions.' DWDD book panel

Hamburg, 1946. In the aftermath of the Second World War, thousands of people try to survive amid the rubble. British Colonel Lewis Morgan is responsible for rebuilding the city and hunting down Nazis among the exhausted population. He is stationed in a large house on the outskirts of the city, where his wife Rachael and his only surviving son Edmund will rejoin him after years.

Lewis does not have the heart to evict the official residents, a German widower and his daughter, and decides to share the house with them. Against this tense backdrop, hostility and sadness gradually give way to passion and betrayal.

The press about The House in Kreis Pinneberg

'Rhidian Brook's house in Kreis Pinneberg opens the eyes and touches the soul. Moving and gripping novel about displaced people in the aftermath of the Second World War in Hamburg.' The Telegraph

'No reader will soon forget the image of chaotic German society after 1945. […] Rhidian Brook has written a valuable novel with The House in Kreis Pinneberg.' Dutch Dagblad

'This powerful novel is stylistically beautiful and set against a very cinematic backdrop.' The Sunday Times