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People Like Us
By Louise Fein
‘A German girl. A Jewish boy. A love that changes everything.’ These are the words on the cover of Louise Fein’s debut novel – People Like Us – which is set in 1930s Leipzig, and is a book inspired by events from her own family history. Clearly, a love story, set against a backdrop of life in Germany in the 1930s between a German girl and a German Jewish boy, is going to be traumatic – and it is a nerve-wracking and gripping read.
Interestingly, novelist Louise Fein chose to create a protagonist, Herta Heinrich, who was a young German girl, from a strongly Nazi family. She did this to allow her to take us, the readers, inside Herta’s head and see the unfolding events of the time through her eyes. Doing so, we learn how, little by little, prejudice and propaganda spread throughout German society, how families
