The Glass Pearls

Synopsis

Nothing is more inviting to disclose your secrets than to be told by others of their own …

London, June 1965. Karl Braun arrives as a lodger in Pimlico: hatless, with a bow-tie, greying hair, slight in build. His new neighbours are intrigued by this cultured German gentleman who works as a piano tuner; many are fellow émigrés, who assume that he, like them, came to England to flee Hitler. That summer, Braun courts a woman, attends classical concerts, dances the twist. But as the newspapers fill with reports of the hunt for Nazi war criminals, his nightmares become increasingly worse …

‘A haunting, remarkable novel, as startlingly original as any of Pressburger’s films.’ Nicola Upson
‘A dark and harrowing window on the past: the ending will haunt your dreams.’ Janice Hallett