THE HOUSE BY THE LAKE

HARDING, THOMAS Y TECKENTRUP. BRITTA

a beautiful picture-book adaptation of thomas harding's costa-shortlisted biography for adults, exquisitely illustrated by britta teckentrup.on the outskirts of berlin, a wooden cottage stands on the shore of a lake. over the course of a century, this little house played host to a loving jewish family, a renowned nazi composer, wartime refugees and a stasi informant; in that time, a world war came and went, and the berlin wall was built a stone's throw from the cottage's back door. thomas harding first shared this remarkable story in his costa-shortlisted biography the house by the lake – now he has rendered it into a deeply moving picture-book for young readers. with words that read like a haunting fairy-tale, and magnificent artwork by britta teckentrup, this is the astonishing true story of the house by the lake.