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The Other Hoffmann Sister
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For Ingrid Hoffmann the story of her sister's disappearance began in their first weeks in Southwest Africa...When her family moves to Africa in 1902, Ingrid Hoffmann worries constantly about her older sister, Margarete. Amid local tensions, violence and tragedy, the Hoffmann family are abruptly forced to return to Berlin alongside the wife and son of murdered landowner Baron von Ketz. Ingrid's anxiety is assuaged however when Margarete and Emil von Ketz become engaged on the eve of the First World War. But Margarete's disappearance on the night of her wedding haunts Ingrid and the ensuing chaos destroys any hope of solving the mystery. After the war, Ingrid returns to the von Ketzes' crumbling estate determined to find out what really happened to her sister...Praise for The Spring of Kasper Meier'Beguiling, unsettling and wonderfully atmospheric' Sarah Waters'A decidedly accomplished first novel . . . where the keenness of observation and the rhythms of the prose call Graham Greene to mind' Allan Massie
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