The House by the Lake: The Story of a Home and a Hundred Years of History av Thomas Harding

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<p><b>"The incredible story of how a house was witness to German history" <i>Telegraph</i></b><br><br><b>"A touching picturebook which shows children that large events can have repercussions even in small and unheralded places" <i>Wall Street Journal</i></b><br><br><b><u>A beautiful picture-book adaptation of Thomas Harding''s Costa-shortlisted biography for adults, exquisitely illustrated by Britta Teckentrup.<br></u></b><br>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. <br><br>Thomas Harding first shared this remarkable story in his Costa-shortlisted biography <i>The House by the Lake ¿</i> now he has rendered it into a deeply moving picture-book for young readers. With words that read l