Ambitious, tragic and timely ... Meticulously researched, this book insists we confront the ­complexity of truth, uncomfortable as that may be. It's also a fierce celebration of the messy nature of humanity itself

Daily Mail

Complex and engaging, moving and sorrowful but also, untimately, uplifting. And in Adelheid we have one of the most mordantly funny and honest voices ever encountered in literature

Tan Twan Eng

Astonishingly clever and moving

Lucy Mangan

A book that walks a tightrope between realism and imagination, and creates something spirited and memorable as it does so .... A journey to identify what makes us human and what destroys that humanity ... Adelheid's joy adds up to a great paean to the humanity that the Nazis wanted to destroy

GUARDIAN, Book of the Day

Compelling, deeply researched … Adelheid is an enchanting creation … as tense as a thriller and profoundly moving

Spectator

A vividly imagined story told with real drive and heart

Rachel Seiffert