All That I Am by Anna Funder

Book Description

Secondhand. Good condition. Wear to book corners and edges.

Based on real people and events, All That I Am is a masterful and exhilarating exploration of bravery and betrayal, the risks and sacrifices some people make for their beliefs, and heroism hidden in the most unexpected places.

When Hitler came to power in 1933, a tight-knit group of friends and lovers became hunted outlaws overnight. United in their resistance to the madness and tyranny of Nazism, they flee the country.

Dora, passionate and fearless; her lover, the great playwright Ernst Toller; her younger cousin Ruth and Ruth's husband Hans find refuge in London.

Here, they take awe-inspiring risks to continue their work in secret. But England is not the safe haven they think it is, and a single, chilling act of betrayal will tear them apart.

Some seventy years later, Ruth is living out her days in Sydney, making an uneasy peace with the ghosts of her past, and a part of history that has all but been forgotten. (back cover)