Rhidian Brook

I want to watch The Aftermath the movie, so of course, I started by reading the book. And, I must say that I quite enjoyed this story about a British family moving into a house with a German widower and his daughter after WW2. Both families have lost much during the war and now they have to live under the same roof. The ending felt a bit abrupt, but I quite enjoyed the writing and the story. Now I'm ready for the movie!

Finalizada la segunda guerra mundial, Hamburgo ha sido ocupada por los británicos. El coronel Lewis Morgan y su familia se instalan en una de las mansiones requisadas a los alemanes. La integridad y el deseo de confraternización del coronel hacen que llegue a un acuerdo con los ocupantes de la casa, la familia Luber, compuesta por un arquitecto viudo y su hija adolescente, para que ambas familias puedan convivir en armonía.

Greatly enjoyed it, which is unusual, for me, for a fictional work.

There's much written about Berlin in the last week's of WW2 (and the weeks after surrender), but not so for Hamburg. Enlightening and unsettling, The Aftermath brings together motherless children, grieving parents , a widower and emotionally disurbed teenagers in a story which reveals yet more ways in which war destroys us.