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The Secret Purposes
David Baddiel
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Description for The Secret Purposes
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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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Condition
Used, Very Good
Publisher
Little, Brown
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Number of Pages
416
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780316725767
SKU
KEX0230789
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 2 to 4 working days
Ref
99-1
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.
Reviews for The Secret Purposes
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