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  • Published: 10 October 2023
  • ISBN: 9781804991039
  • Imprint: Penguin
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 256
  • RRP: $22.99

Berlin

The Downfall 1945




Now in paperback, a wry, piercingly contemporary debut about a young woman who moves to Berlin to escape her demons. For fans of Cleopatra and Frankenstein, My Year of Rest and Relaxation and Exciting Times.

When Daphne Ferber arrives in Berlin for a fresh start in a thrilling new city, the last thing she expects is to run into more drama than she left behind.

Of course, she knew she'd need to do the usual: make friends, acquire lovers, grapple with German and a whole new way of life. She even expected the long nights gorging alone on family-sized jars of Nutella, and the pitfalls of online dating in another language. The paranoia, the second-guessing of her every choice, the covert behaviours? Probably come with the territory.

But one night, something strange, dangerous and entirely unexpected intervenes, and life in bohemian Kreuzberg suddenly doesn't seem so cool. Just how much trouble is Daphne in, and who - or what - is out to get her?

  • Published: 10 October 2023
  • ISBN: 9781804991039
  • Imprint: Penguin
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 256
  • RRP: $22.99

About the author

Bea Setton

Bea Setton was born in France and spent her early years in the Parisian suburbs before moving to the USA to study philosophy. Upon graduating, she relocated to Berlin, enrolled in a language school, lived in umpteen different flats, and experienced the events that were to inspire her first novel, Berlin, which will be published in the UK by Doubleday in 2022.

She currently divides her time between Berlin and Cambridge, where she is studying for a Masters in philosophical theology and working on plans for her second book.

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