A review by sarahe
The Wolf Children by Cay Rademacher

3.0

2.5 stars. Thank god the divorce hearing was in eight days and they had to crack the case by then because otherwise Stave would still be mooning round the ruins. Maybe the aimlessness is meant to convey the torpidity of the hot, stuck summer of 1947 but it makes for a draggy narrative. As in the previous book, the atmosphere of ruined Hamburg is the main thing here but the frozen winter of 1946 was a bit better.