This historic romantic novel plays in 1945 post-war Germany. The ashes and soot have all settled down to a fragile peace. Young Elizabeth Hedridge follows her patriotic duty to care for wounded British soldiers stationed in Germany. She meets Baron Frederich von Hohendorf, the translator, a married German aristocrat who offers her a glimpse of a privileged caste system that Elizabeth falls unwittingly in love with. Their romance cannot withstand the stress of post-war life, but leaves, in its stead, a love child who will ...
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This historic romantic novel plays in 1945 post-war Germany. The ashes and soot have all settled down to a fragile peace. Young Elizabeth Hedridge follows her patriotic duty to care for wounded British soldiers stationed in Germany. She meets Baron Frederich von Hohendorf, the translator, a married German aristocrat who offers her a glimpse of a privileged caste system that Elizabeth falls unwittingly in love with. Their romance cannot withstand the stress of post-war life, but leaves, in its stead, a love child who will return 50 years later to meet her father and claim her birthright. She and other characters of The Translator are drawn into a cloak-and-dagger situation, involving a recruited Soviet agent, hidden Nazi weapons factories and American secret agents, which almost costs her her life. The turmoil and raw emotions of that first post-war year will fascinate and thrill the reader.
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