From award-winning author and screenwriter Rhidian Brook comes a searing novel, set in a Germany ravaged by World War II, that tells the profoundly moving story of two families—one British, one German—thrown into one house, and of love grown from hate. Soon to be a major motion picture starring Keira Knightley, Alexander Skarsgård, Jason Clarke, and Alexander Scheer.

In the bitter winter of 1946, Rachael Morgan arrives with her only remaining son Edmund in the ruins of Hamburg. Here she is reunited with her husband Lewis, a British colonel charged with rebuilding the shattered city. But as they set off for their new home, Rachael is stunned to discover that Lewis has made an extraordinary decision: they will be sharing the grand house with its previous owners, a German widower named Stefan Lubert and his troubled daughter. In this charged atmosphere, enmity and grief give way to passion and betrayal.