** Winner of the Georgina Hawtrey-Woore Award for adult fiction, 2018 ** After Kristallnacht in 1938 Doktor Theodore Goldstein, his wife Lisl, and their small son Theo, flee from Berlin, across the North Sea to Edinburgh. There, for more than ten years, they build a new life - a good life. But then a friend from the old days arrives, and they find themselves once again facing ruin and terror. "I have just finished reading your novella and must say that I was totally taken away by it. When I had to leave it, it stayed in my mind and I kept thinking about it so that shows what an effect it had on me." Sam Pope "a gripping tale which asks us all how far we would go to protect ur families." Su Lynch