At the Edge of the World

“Caroline Bernard writes in a gentle, alluring style.”                            – Christine Westermann

In the summer of 1935, twenty-five-year-old Grete follows her husband and moves with their young twins to the newly established Hermann Göring polder, a colony on the North sea established as a model agricultural settlement according to Nazi ideology. The vast North Sea coast is breathtaking—and extremely dangerous. Grete struggles against the heavy, saline soil, against storm surges, and the loneliness that pushes her to the limits of her strength while her husband is at the front. The only warmth that Grete can experience in this desolated landscape is in the arms of a French war prisoner who helps her at the farm …

Sixty years later, her granddaughter Kristine stumbles upon this suppressed past. She, too, is searching for answers by the sea and realises how closely her life is tied to the fate of her grandmother Grete whose decision in order to protect her daughter from the deadly claws of the Nazi Regime will burden her for the rest of her life.

AT THE EDGE OF THE WORLD tells a story of guilt and responsibility, of mothers and daughters, and a landscape that shapes three generations of women and gives them the courage to find their own path.

A powerful dual-timeline narrative that gradually uncovers a family mystery connecting the Nazi era with the present day

Caroline Bernard is a bestselling author whose works have been translated into 20 languages