The Other Hoffmann Sister
- Author Ben Fergusson
- Narrator Suzannah Hampton
- Publisher Little, Brown Book Group
- Run Time 12 hours and 33 minutes
- Format Audio
- Genre Adventure fiction, First World War fiction, Historical fiction.
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What to expect
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
'Ben Fergusson's grittily evocative novel [is] historically knowledgeable and piercing in its scrutiny of morally ambiguous characters, political murkiness and a world quivering with suspicion and jeopardy' Peter Kemp
Critics Review
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A fascinating look at racism and snobbery. Broken postwar Germany is superbly drawn and events in Africa are horrific
The Times -
Shortlisted for the Sunday Times/Peters Fraser & Dunlop Young Writer of the Year Award in 2015, Ben Fergusson was much praised for his first novel, The Spring of Kasper Meier…The Other Hoffmann Sister confirms the talent for atmospheric, morally complex historical fiction that Fergusson showed in his first novel...An engrossing exploration of the ways that secrecy, racism and snobbery take their toll on its finely realised characters‘
Sunday Times -
In this intricately plotted novel, Ben Fergusson takes a little-known slice of history and fashions it into a gripping love story
Mail on Sunday -
The evocative setting and the quick-paced plot takes the reader on a whirlwind tour through South Africa, to Berlin and back again, through war and its aftermath, through aristocracy and the von Ketz’s crumbling estate. The novel, written by the award-winning author Ben Fergusson, would appeal to fans of Sarah Perry’s The Essex Serpent.
10 Best Book Club Reads, independent.co.uk -
[An] atmospheric, morally complex historical novel
Sunday Times Culture 'Must Read' -
Taut, subtle, ambitious and engrossing. A gripping story of conflicting loyalties spanning a turbulent and changing world
Imogen Robertson, author of The Paris Winter
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