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Title
The girl in Berlin

Author
Elizabeth Wilson

format
Paperback / softback

Publisher
Profile

Language
English

UK Publication Date
20120503

Description

Summer 1951. The Cold War is at its height. Burgess and Maclean have just disappeared, and the nation is obsessed with the story of their probable defection.Colin Harris, a member of the Communist Party, who has been exiled in Germany for several years, arrives back in England with news: he has fallen in love with a girl in Berlin and plans to return to the UK permanently with his bride-to-be. Then Konrad Ebershardt, a German scientist, living in England for the past two decades, is found dead, and it emerges that Harris was one of the last people to see him alive. What does Harris know about Burgess and Maclean? Was he involved in Ebershardt's murder? And who is this girl in Berlin?A novel about secrets and spies, about making choices and living with the consequences, The Girl In Berlin is a reminder that when nothing is as it seems, no-one can be trusted - even, sometimes, those you think you know best.

My family was involved in running the British Empire in increasingly lowly postions sliding slowly down the social scale.
They felt quite dislocated after WW II and my mother led a very marginal existence.
Perhaps because of this she had me educated at St Paul's Girls' School, where I encountered a completely different world of the Jewish and non Jewish intelligentsia, and then at Oxford.
Possbily because of the discrepancy between home background and sophisticated educational milieu I was extremely rebellious.
I trained as a psychiatric social worker because of an interest in psychoanalysis, but throughout 10 years working in the field I was repelled by its conservative ethos and morality and eventually escaped to a polytechnic.
But this time I was involved in Gay Liberation and the Women's Movement, which defined the 1970s for me.
In the 1980s I became a lesbian co-parent and later a parent governor at Camden School for Girls.
Beginning in the mid-70s I wrote a number of polemical/academic works about women, and then shifted into an interest in fashion and dress (I am currently Visiting Professor at the London College of Fashion, University of the Arts, London).
For some years I was a member of the Communist Party of Great Britain, but am now a Green Party member.
I am currently working on another novel and also on a book about the necessity of atheism.

Type
BOOK

Keyword Index
Great Britain - History - 20th century - Fiction.

Country of Publication
England

Number of Pages
310

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