Charlotte

From the international bestseller, this is the tragic and triumphant story of one of the 20th century's most extraordinary but little-known artists. 'I am deeply, deeply affected by this sad, beautiful, indignant, wrenching, important book... It is an artistic privilege and (I think) almost a moral duty that you all read this' Sarah Perry, author of }The Essex SerpentCharlotte Salomon is born into a family stricken by suicide and a country at war. But there is something exceptional about her - she has a gift, a talent for painting. And she has a great love, for a brilliant, eccentric musician. But just as she is coming into her own as an artist, death is coming to control her country. The Nazis have come to power and, as a Jew in Berlin, Charlotte's life is narrowing, and she knows every second is precious.Inspiring, unflinching, terrible and hopeful, Charlotte is the heartbreaking true story of a life filled with curiosity, animated by genius and cut short by hatred.