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Secret Purposes David Baddiel

Secret Purposes By David Baddiel

Secret Purposes by David Baddiel


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Summary

This is a novel about Nazi Germany and the plight of internees in wartime Britain, by writer and comedian David Baddiel.

Secret Purposes Summary

Secret Purposes by David Baddiel

THE SECRET PURPOSES, David Baddiel's third novel, takes us into a little-known and still somewhat submerged area of British history: the internment of German Jewish refugees on the Isle of Man during the Second World War. Isaac Fabian, on the run with his young family from Nazism in East Prussia, comes to Britain assuming he has found asylum, but instead finds himself drowning in the morass of ignorance, half-truth, prejudice, and suspicion that makes up government attitudes to German Jews in 1940. One woman, June Murray, a translator from the Ministry of Information, stands out - and when she comes to the island on a personal mission to uncover solid evidence of Nazi atrocities, her meeting with Isaac will have far-reaching consequences for both of them. A haunting and beautifully written tale of love, displacement and survival, THE SECRET PURPOSES profoundly questions the way that truth - both personal and political - emerges from the tangle of history.

Secret Purposes Reviews

WHATEVER LOVE MEANS 'A thriller and a love story constructed with a sinister symmetry where everything comic is shadowed by something dark' - Chrissie Iley, Sunday Times 'A black, sometimes tender read ... impressive and intelligent' - The Times

About David Baddiel

Co-creator of three of the BBC's most successful comedy programmes, (The Mary Whitehouse Experience/ Baddiel & Skinner and Fantasy Football), David Baddiel has proved himself an accomplished novelist (and critic) too.

Additional information

GOR001847651
9780316725767
0316725765
Secret Purposes by David Baddiel
Used - Very Good
Paperback
Little, Brown & Company
2004-09-20
416
N/A
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