{"product_id":"the-house-by-the-lake-the-story-of-a-home-and-a-hundred-years-of-history-by-thomas-harding","title":"The House by the Lake: The Story of a Home and a Hundred Years of History by Thomas Harding","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"The incredible story of how a house was witness to German history\" Telegraph\"A touching picturebook which shows children that large events can have repercussions even in small and unheralded places\" Wall Street Journal\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA 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 Nazi 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.\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"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\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"A book that will stay with me for a very long time.\" - Rachel Joyce\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Winding Stair Bookshop","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":39529286074451,"sku":"","price":11.5,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0272\/0691\/0035\/products\/house.jpg?v=1636470695","url":"https:\/\/winding-stair-bookshop.myshopify.com\/products\/the-house-by-the-lake-the-story-of-a-home-and-a-hundred-years-of-history-by-thomas-harding","provider":"Winding Stair Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}