The Undertaking
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Written by Audrey Magee
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Lauded by New York Times bestselling writer Chris Cleave as “outstanding” and finalist for the Baileys Women’s Prize for Fiction, The Undertaking is a remarkable debut novel from Audrey Magee.
Set during World War II amid the trenches of the eastern front and the turmoil of Berlin under the Third Reich, The Undertaking follows the lives of an ordinary German soldier, Peter Faber, as he approaches Stalingrad, and his new wife, Katharina Spinell, who, goaded on by her delusional parents, ruthlessly works her way into Nazi high society with tragic consequences. This is an unforgettable and elegant novel of marriage, ambition, and the brutality of war from one of our finest new writers.