Francesca Peacock

A deadly game of chance: The Story of a Forest, by Linda Grant, reviewed

The fates of members of a Jewish family depend on accidental meetings, the boarding of a ship or the ring of a phone in this complex fable woven from 20th-century history

Linda Grant. [Charlie Hopkinson]

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