Makeshift

Sarah Campion

• 30 november 2025
• 9781915812490

Samenvatting:

“Here is a writer with the drive of a steam engine, a writer never content with compromise. A splendid and disturbing novel.”—Liverpool Daily Post

Makeshift traces the story of Charlotte Herz, a German Jewish woman, from the end of the First World War to the brink of the Second. We follow her through the Weimar Republic, its political and economic conflicts, and the Nazi rise to power in Germany. Campion, who spent much of the 1930s in Germany, details Charlotte's struggle to establish her identity in the midst of increasing anti-Semitism and Nazi violence against Jews.

Finally, driven into exile, Charlotte roams from England to South Africa and Australia before settling, uneasily, in New Zealand. Her stubborn, irascible outlook makes her a caustic and often bitingly funny observer, and her unique narrative voice makes her an irresistible storyteller. A unique account of the experience of exile that makes for an unforgettable novel.

“High praise is due to Miss Campion's gifts of descriptive writing. Charlotte is a completely consistent character, intensely interesting and absolutely alive.”—Leonora Eyles, Times Literary Supplement