The Dark Meadow

By Andrea Maria Schenkel

Subjects: Germany, fiction, Fiction, mystery & detective, general, Fiction

Description: Bavaria, Germany, 1944. At the end of the war, Afra Zauner returns to her parents' cottage on the edge of Mauther Forest. Unmarried, and pregnant. As she struggles to raise her child, her father's shame, her mother's fury and the loud whispers of the neighbours begin to weigh upon her. She doesn't believe in her sin. But everyone else does. And someone brings judgement down upon her.