Last House Before The Mountain

Monika Helfer

£8.99

Based on the internationally bestselling and award-winning Austrian novelist Monika Helfer’s own family history, Last House Before the Mountain is a propulsive, haunting, multi-layered saga about love, family, and the hidden wages of war.

Paperback

Fiction

ISBN: 9781526657145

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Brigitte, Maria and Josef live with their children in a valley in westernmost Austria.

When the First World War breaks out and Josef is drafted into the army, Maria is left to provide for her family alone.

Every day is a struggle against starvation, the harsh alpine climate and the hostile nearby villagers who see Maria as little more than a beautiful temptress out for the men left behind.

But when a red-haired stranger arrives in the village, Maria feels happiness seep back into her life and she faces a choice whose consequences will affect the lives of her family for generations to come.

Beautiful and heartbreaking…I absolutely loved it’ – Monica Ali, Sunday Times Bestselling author of Love Marriage

The whole, biographically inspired family drama tells of the greatest feelings we have: Love, anger, envy and grief’ –  Meike Schnitzler

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Weight 0.4 kg
Dimensions 20 × 13 × 5 cm