Fighting to free herself from a toxic relationship, 21-year-old Lora escapes to her recently widowed grandmother’s home in Hamburg. When Daniel, Lora’s delusional ex, and a string of estranged relatives turn up, covert agendas emerge and conflicting views on sexual ethics surface, with sudden and surprising consequences.This vividly powerful, ‘no-holding-back’ début confronts the darker aspects of history, offering a hidden narrative of post-war Germany. Quietly ambitious, funny and sometimes tragic, Windstill reveals the stories we tell to protect the ones we love.
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Eluned Gramich is a German-Welsh writer and translator. She has lived in England, Germany, and Tokyo, Japan, and has settled in Aberystwyth where she works as a librarian in the National Library of Wales. She has a BA in English Literature from Oxford University, an MA in Creative Writing (Prose) from the University of East Anglia, and she has recently completed a funded Ph D in Creative and Critical Writing at Aberystwyth and Cardiff Universities.Eluned’s short stories and essays have appeared in several magazines and anthologies including O’r Pedwar Gwynt and Planet: The Welsh Internationalist, as well as ‘Short Works, ’ BBC R4. Her memoir, Woman Who Brings the Rain, won the inaugural New Welsh Writing Awards and went on to be shortlisted for the Wales Book of the Year 2016.With nigh on divine perceptivity, Windstill is an intricately spun tale that allows multiple pasts, presents, and futures to mingle wraithlike before our eyes.Polly Barton A beautifully written, richly textured meditation on cross-generational trauma. An elegant and eloquent exploration of the hidden secrets and histories that shape the present.Tristan Hughes