Ursula W Schneider: 2 books

Eleven short stories are united by the common theme of a woman's journey. Her voyage begins with a repressive childhood in an authoritarian, war-torn society and continues through periods of awakening and self-discovery in which she finds the hidden strength to support herself in new worlds and raise...

The extemporaneous existence of Nadine, a bright, complex but naive and trusting young German woman, begins when she heads to England after World War II. She thinks shes leaving home to improve her knowledge of Shakespeares English while working as an au pair in a British household, but instead...