Introduction

The war is over. But there are still secrets to be found amidst the ashes …

Hamburg, 1946

The war is over, and Germany is in ruins. Posted to an Allied-run Hamburg, reporter Georgie Young returns to the country she fled seven years prior – at the onset of the conflict – to find it unrecognizable.

Amongst the stark horrors of a bombed-out city crumbling under the weight of millions of displaced souls, she discovers pockets of warmth: a violinist playing amidst the wreckage, couples dancing in the streets, and a nation trying to make amends.

Joining forces with local detective Harri Schroder to catch a killer targeting women on the city’s streets, curiosity draws Georgie deep into the dark underbelly, and she soon discovers that some secrets of war did not die with Hitler…

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CHAPTER ONE: THE RETURN


11 February 1946, Hamburg, northern Germany Georgie
She’s aware of her own shoes echoing on the rough concrete, soles slapping noisily as she looks left and right for the man who’s set to meet her. As with any arrival in a strange place – and there have been many over the last six or seven years – Georgie pitches her nose into the air, to gain the scent. To place herself, not so much in the geography of a town or country, but in the atlas of humanity. Good or bad, safety or danger. Too often it has been cordite and destruction, and death. Now, above her own scent of magnolia, the smell under her nose is unexpectedly worse: peacetime despair and decay has replaced dynamite. Death, too, remains firmly in the mix, bubbling under. Is that right now the war is over? ... view entire excerpt...

Discussion Questions

From the publisher:

1. What three words would you use to describe The Hidden Storyteller, and why?

2. Which character’s perspective – Georgie, Harri or Meta – did you relate to the most, and why?

3. How important was the character of Meta in creating a true sense of Hamburg in 1946?

4. Georgie’s work is important, but also dangerous. Would you have travelled alone like she did? Do you think she took any unnecessary risks throughout the novel?

5. How important do you feel a woman’s intuition is to the plot of The Hidden Storyteller? 6. Which other books would you compare The Hidden Storyteller to, and why?

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