The Fox in the Attic Book

Augusten is a young man from an aristocratic family struggling to make sense of a world devastated by the Great War. The enemy abroad may have been defeated but when he finds himself implicated in the death of a young girl he becomes targeted as the enemy within. Fleeing Britain Augusten seeks refuge and solace in the remote castle of Bavarian relatives; but what he finds is a hinterland of fierce lust and terrible darkness; a paradigm of the hunger and the hatred that promises to resuscitate a ruined Germany. The Fox in the Attic is both a haunting tale of unrequited love and a remarkable crystallisation of a singular moment in history. Recording the moment when Germany teetered on the brink of Nazism - the pause before the thunderous fall - Hughes' prose captures both the full weight of inevitability and the full weight of first love.Read More