All That I Am

In 1933, as Hitler takes power, a tight group of German activists, friends and lovers, becomes overnight a band of hunted outlaws. Dora Fabian, bold and fiercely committed, the playwright Ernst Toller, who is her lover, her younger cousin Ruth Becker and Ruth's husband Hans escape to London and keep up their resistance to Nazism there, taking enormous risks. Yet England is not the refuge they imagine, and one cold act of treachery will break the group apart. Decades on, Ruth is old and living in Sydney, at uneasy peace with her memories and with a chapter of history the world has largely forgotten. The characters are drawn from real people, and the story from real events.

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About the book

Form

Novel

Genres

Historical, Politics (assigned by AI)

Set in

Germany, United Kingdom, Australia, 1930s

First published

2011

Author's age

45 when first published

ISBN

9781926428338 (Hamish Hamilton, Australia)

9780062077561 (Harper, United States)

9780143567516 (Penguin, Australia)

9780670920426 (Viking, United Kingdom)

9780062077578 (Harper Perennial, United States)

9781761343698 (Penguin, Australia)

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