![]() ![]() Meanwhile, his sister makes her way out of Occupied France to Nice, where she helps coordinate the distribution of fake identity papers. She is writing a book, The Immoral Imagination, detailing the ‘updated lexicon’ of post-referendum Britain, like Victor Klemperer’s study of Nazified language: ‘watermelon smiles’, ‘dead in a ditch’, ‘letterbox’.ĭaniel presents the familiar framing device of the slowly dying body in a bed.As he flickers between lucidity and recollection, we fall out of the present and into the past: to the second world war and his experience of being interned in a camp at Ascot with other German civilians -despite having lived in the UK since childhood, deemed non-threatening and being Jewish. ![]() The children’s parents voted differently in 2016, so now their dad lives next door with his girlfriend, Ashley. Sacha and Robert are two children who tag along with Charlotte and Arthur (whom we came across in Winter) to meet him. ![]()
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