Manja Gift Wrapping:Tissue/Endpaper she is a most detached

she is a most detached girl

The endpapers are taken from a design for a 1914-23 chiffon voile by Margaret Macdonald Mackintosh

PREFACE BY HENRIETTA TWYCROSS-MARTIN

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These crucial questions are addressed by Caroline Moorehead in her Persephone Preface

Manja Gift Wrapping:Tissue/Endpaper she is a most detachedTRANSLATED BY KATE PHILLIPS PREFACE BY EVA IBBOTSON 552pp ISBN 9781903155295 Written in 1936 7 by a young Austrian playwright living in exile in London, Manja opens, radically, with five conception scenes all set on the same night in 1920. In the midst of the turbulent Germany of the Weimar Republic, it goes on, equally dramatically, to describe the lives of the children and their families up until 1933 when the Nazis came to power. The four boys and