I touch my own cheek, trying to imagine what shrapnel feels like, metal ripping flesh.
PURE, FLAWLESS HAPPINESS
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The Novel
It is 1938, and the Western world is edgy with fear.
A young Edith Schwarz lives in a London transfixed by the coming of war. Her life, so respectable on the surface, is a mess. With bombers threatening, she has no option but to reconsider her values, sexuality, and identity.
More than sixty years later - in a world where peace once more seems to hang by a thread - Edith is in crisis again. This time she has a choice, and maybe it's not too late to stop hiding.
This is a story of people who find inner strength and resourcefulness - not by being heroic, but by being ordinary.