The Undertaking: SHORTLISTED FOR THE BAILEYS PRIZE FOR WOMEN'S FICTION, 2014

The debut novel by the author of The Colony, longlisted for the 2022 Booker Prize

A soldier on the Russian Front marries a photograph of a woman he has never met. Hundreds of miles away in Berlin, the woman marries a photograph of the soldier. It is a contract of business rather than love. When the newlywed strangers finally meet, however, passion blossoms and they begin to imagine a life together under the bright promise of Nazi Germany. But as the tide of war turns and Allied enemies come ever closer, the couple find themselves facing the terrible consequences of being ordinary people stained with their small share of an extraordinary guilt...

© 2014 Atlantic Books (Ebook): 9781782391043

Release date

Ebook: 6 February 2014