Instructions for the Working Day

<p><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Shortlisted for the Rubery Book Award 2024</strong></p><p></p><p><em style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>'You go too far my friend. You are near dangerous ground.'</em></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Neil Fischer is travelling to a village in East Germany that he has unexpectedly inherited - his father's former hometown of Marschwald. Knowing it has been left to deteriorate for decades after the fall of the Berlin Wall Neil is determined to restore the derelict village to its former glory as his demanding late father would surely have wanted. But when he arrives he is met with hostility mistrust and underlying menace. His only friend in Marschwald is Silke who is coming to terms with her traumatic experiences during the Cold War and has recently uncovered a shocking truth.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>As tensions rise a series of surreal encounters force Neil to contend with his own troubled past - but in his present all signs point to danger.</span></p>