The House by the Lake: The Story of a Home and a Hundred Years of History

A beautiful picture-book adaptation of Thomas Harding's Costa-shortlisted biography for adults exquisitely illustrated by Britta Teckentrup.. On the outskirts of Berlin a wooden cottage stands on the shore of a lake. Over the course of a century this little house played host to a loving Jewish family a renowned composer wartime refugees and a Stasi informant; in that time a world war came and went and the Berlin Wall was built a stone's throw from the cottage's back door. . Thomas Harding first shared this remarkable story in his Costa-shortlisted biography The House by the Lake – now he has rendered it into a deeply moving picture-book for young readers. With words that read like a haunting fairy-tale and magnificent artwork by Britta Teckentrup this is the astonishing true story of the house by the lake.PRAISE FOR THE ORIGINAL BIOGRAPHY OF THE HOUSE BY THE LAKE: . A Radio 4 Book of the Week. Named a Best Book of the Year by: The Times >> New Statesman >> Daily Express >> Commonweal magazine. Shortlisted for the Costa Biography Award 2015. Longlisted for the Orwell Prize 2016. Over 50 five-star reviews on Amazon. A passionate memoir. – Neil MacGregor. A superb portrait of twentieth century Germany seen through the prism of a house which was lived in and lost by five different families. A remarkable book. – Tom Holland. A book that will stay with me for a very long time. – Rachel Joyce. A superb work of social history. – The Sunday Times . Diamond brilliant ... an extraordinary book. – Sunday Express. A deft history of a cabin containing many secrets. – IndependentA fascinating window on a tumultuous period – Financial Times. Original personal moving and uplifting – Literary Review. This is a history that is often poignant sometimes heartening and never other than intimate. – Spectator. An extraordinary book…. Harding has extracted the past from the dust that collects between floorboards and from layers of peeling wallpaper.” – Washington Post. SEE ALSO THOMAS HARDING'S NEW BIOGRAPHY LEGACY:. I was riveted: this is a fascinating social history. – Nigella Lawson. Written with love and imagination ... a masterclass in historical empathy. – TLS. Nobody quite stirs the soup of historical detail like Harding. – Express