All That I Am

Synopsis

<p><b>WINNER OF THE 2012 MILES FRANKLIN AWARD</b></p> <p>When Hitler comes to power in 1933, a tight-knit group of friends and lovers become hunted outlaws overnight.  United in their resistance to the madness and tyranny of Nazism, they flee the country.  Dora, passionate and fearless; her lover, the greate playwright Ernst Toller; her younger cousin Ruth and Ruth's husband Hans find refuge in London.  Here they take awe-inspiring risks in order to continue their work in secret.  But England is not the safe-haven they think it is, and a single, chilling act of betrayal will tear them apart.<br /><br />Some seventy years later, Ruth is living out her days is Sydney, making an uneasy peace with the ghosts of her past, and a part of history that has all but been forgotten.<br /><br />'A gripping story of love and betrayal.  Dora is the most attractive fictional heroine in a long time.' <b><i>New Statesman</i></b><br /><br />'[Funder's] political and moral intelligence shine even more brightly than in <i>Stasiland;</i> the compassionate but unsentimental truthfulness towards her characters even more moving for being interwoven into a narrative of such complexity.' <b>Raimond Gaita, Books of the Year, <i>The Weekend Australian</i></b><br /><br />'A sweeping first novel that cover love and war, friendship and betrayal, and the bonds that define a life.  It is a moving and ambitious work.' <b>Ann Patchett</b></p> <p>'Spellbinding.  There are echoes of the best espionage tales.' <i><b>Sunday Telegraph</b></i></p>