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Audrey Magee

Audrey Magee worked for twelve years as a journalist and has written for, among others, The Times, The Irish Times, the Observer and the Guardian. She studied German and French at University College Dublin and journalism at Dublin City University. She lives in Wicklow with her husband and three daughters. The Undertaking is her first novel.

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Title:: The Undertaking
Written by:: Audrey Magee
Read by:: Adrian Mulraney
Format:: Unabridged CD Audio Book
Number of CDs:: 6
Duration:: 7 hours 38 minutes
Published:: October 01 2014
Available Date:: October 01 2014
Age Category:: Adult
ISBN:: 9781486210794
Genres:: Fiction; Historical Fiction
Publisher:: Bolinda audio

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‘The Undertaking is immensely readable ... Magee offers an insight into the deprivations of ordinary combatants as well as exploring the excesses of those in power. It’s an impressive debut.’
The Independent

A stunning novel in the tradition of Bernard Schlink's The Reader and Rachel Seiffert's The Dark Room.

Desperate to escape the Eastern front, Peter Faber, an ordinary German soldier, marries Katharina Spinell, a woman he has never met; it is a marriage of convenience that promises 'honeymoon' leave for him and a pension for her should he die on the front. With ten days' leave secured, Peter visits his new wife in Berlin; both are surprised by the attraction that develops between them. When Peter returns to the horror of the front, it is only the dream of Katharina that sustains him as he approaches Stalingrad. Back in Berlin, Katharina, goaded on by her desperate and delusional parents, ruthlessly works her way into the Nazi party hierarchy, wedding herself, her young husband and their unborn child to the regime. But when the tide of war turns and Berlin falls, Peter and Katharina, ordinary people stained with their small share of an extraordinary guilt, find their simple dream of family increasingly hard to hold on to...