The Road to Tarascon
‘What if you raised the lid of a piano stool in a bombed out house, and discovered a photograph of your mother with a German soldier… in Normandy?’
Straight from her strict convent upbringing in New South Wales, VERA LAWSON has a core need to find her mother, who fled a violent marriage in Australia and faked her own death.
Accepting an offer of employment with an aristocratic family in London as a tutor, two boxes of letters are discovered by accident in one of her employer’s attics.
Vera now knows the family are hiding the connection between her mother CAROLINE LAWSON and GUNTHER POLT, a Waffen SS Tank Commander, but needs to prove...