ARGONAUT BOOKS

When Vienna quietly comes under Nazi rule, young music pupil Meret Voytek reluctantly wears the uniform when her orchestra becomes a wing of the Hitler Youth. Meanwhile, Hungarian physicist Karel Szabo has been interned on the Isle of Man. Illustrating the parallels of the enemy alien, Lawton describes their unexpected intersection. Reviews John Lawton finds himself in the same boat as the late Patrick O'Brian - a sublimely elegant historical novelist as addictive as crack but overlooked by too many readers for too long.Daily TelegraphAdmirable, ambitious and haunting, t...Read More