Magda and the Rat Catchers

About the Book

Magda Senger is eleven on 4 July 1932. It is a glorious summer's day and all her friends come to the best birthday party she has ever had in the big garden of her home in Nuremburg. By winter Hitler has come to power. Everything changes. Magda and her cousin, the maverick Fritz, think of themselves as German but they are also Jewish. This is the story of what happens to them as they grow up under the Nazis who say Jews are vermi -- rats to be got rid of. Things come to a head one dreadful night in November 1938. After that we follow Magda and Fritz in their desperate and dangerous journey across Europe, looking for a country that will take them in.

About the Author

The author lives in Kent. Educated in England and America, she has worked in both those countries, as well as on the Continent. She has written books on eighteenth-century life and literature. This is her first novel.