People moved to the Czech borderlands in the 1950s to find a flat, work, to escape from life’s setbacks and failed marriages.
Historical fiction
The characters in the this novel were there searching for an unconventional life, options and independence in a period of oppression. People who later, with good intentions, raised a lost generation of outsiders.
A Story in Indirect Speech is an unusual family history suffused with disarray, emotional turmoil, broken hearts but also the courage to overcome wounds and resist.