Thrust into a hostile world, and unable to comprehend the language, Heike, an immigrant and -enemy- child, struggles to understand the English islanders as she adjusts to the new identity demanded of her.
Intent on escaping the traumas of growing up in fascist Germany and the horrors of its post-war desolation, Heike-s mother will marry the charismatic English officer she met during the Allied occupation of L-neburg. Her daughter, who will be known as -Susanna- from now on, must be kept innocent of her mother-s past and grow up to be English.
As this memoir of displacement, national character, and misunderstandings unfolds, S M Saunders becomes the detective in her own story, searching for the truth that will reconcile her double identity and conflicting emotions.
But this is far from a misery memoir. This is a tale of love-the narrator-s intense love for the extraordinary and eccentric English people whose positive influences not only shaped her and her m
