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Title: House by the Lake, The: The Story of a Home & a Hundred Years of History
Author: HARDING THOMAS
Illustrator: TECKENTRUP BRITTA
Format: HARDCOVER
Publication date: 01/09/2020
Imprint: WALKER BOOKS
Price: $28.00
Publishing status: Active
A beautiful picture-book adaptation of Thomas Harding’s Costa-shortlisted biography for adults, exquisitely illustrated by Britta Teckentrup.
On the outskirts of Berlin, a wooden cottage stands on the shore of a lake. Over the course of a century, this little house played host to a loving Jewish family, a renowned Nazi composer, wartime refugees and a Stasi informant; in that time, a world war came and went, and the Berlin Wall was built a stone’s throw from the cottage’s back door.
Thomas Harding first shared this remarkable story in his Costa-shortlisted biography The House by the Lake – now he has rendered it into a deeply moving picture-book for young readers. With words that read like a haunting fairy-tale, and magnificent artwork by Britta Teckentrup, this is the astonishing true story of the house by the lake.
PRAISE FOR THE ORIGINAL BIOGRAPHY OF THE HOUSE BY THE LAKE:
A Radio 4 Book of the Week
Named a Best Book of the Year by:
The Times >> New Statesman >> Daily Express >> Commonweal magazine
Shortlisted for the Costa Biography Award 2015
Longlisted for the Orwell Prize 2016
Over 50 five-star reviews on Amazon
\”A passionate memoir.\” – Neil MacGregor
\”A superb portrait of twentieth century Germany seen through the prism of a house which was lived in, and lost, by five different families. A remarkable book.\” – Tom Holland
\”A book that will stay with me for a very long time.\” – Rachel Joyce
\”A superb work of social history.\” – The Sunday Times
\”Diamond brilliant … an extraordinary book.\” – Sunday Express
\”A deft history of a cabin containing many secrets.\” – Independent
\”A fascinating window on a tumultuous period\” – Financial Times
\”Original, personal, moving and uplifting\” – Literary Review
\”This is a history that is often poignant, sometimes heartening, and never other than intimate.\” – Spectator
\”An extraordinary book.. Harding has extracted the past from the dust that collects between floorboards and from layers of peeling wallpaper.\” – Washington Post
SEE ALSO THOMAS HARDING’S NEW BIOGRAPHY, LEGACY:
\”I was riveted: this is a fascinating social history.\” – Nigella Lawson
\”Written with love and imagination … a masterclass in historical empathy.\” – TLS
\”Nobody quite stirs the soup of historical detail like Harding.\” – Express
ISBN: 9781406385557
Dimension: 287mm X 265mm
Pages: 48