It is not often that I become so engrossed in a book that I read it in one sitting but that is what happened when I read this book with its somewhat quirky chapter heading and its fast moving plot.
The plot focuses on Brigitta a Jewish refugee who is brought to Britain by the Red Cross as part of a resettlement programme. Brigitta is an unusual refugee in that she has a plan to seek out the manor house of Summerland, home of Lord Summer, in Yorkshire and to use the knife that she carries to exact revenge for the horrors that she and her now deceased mother went through. Aside from carrying a knife she is an unusual refugee in that her approach to what she sees around her is very much based on what she has endured and she is not afraid to challenge local stigma applied to others such as the Black female workers at the local glove factory. In addition to this she is unafraid to challenge Lady Summers who becomes her employer and who is unaware that Brigitta’s mother was once her best friend. So the plot continues as Brigitta’s past life both unfolds and affects her new life in the English Countryside and matters come to a climatic ending where nothing is as it seems.
The plot focuses on Brigitta a Jewish refugee who is brought to Britain by the Red Cross as part of a resettlement programme. Brigitta is an unusual refugee in that she has a plan to seek out the manor house of Summerland, home of Lord Summer, in Yorkshire and to use the knife that she carries to exact revenge for the horrors that she and her now deceased mother went through. Aside from carrying a knife she is an unusual refugee in that her approach to what she sees around her is very much based on what she has endured and she is not afraid to challenge local stigma applied to others such as the Black female workers at the local glove factory. In addition to this she is unafraid to challenge Lady Summers who becomes her employer and who is unaware that Brigitta’s mother was once her best friend. So the plot continues as Brigitta’s past life both unfolds and affects her new life in the English Countryside and matters come to a climatic ending where nothing is as it seems.