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Short-listed for The Weekend Times Young Writer of the entire year 2015, Ben Fergusson's critically acclaimed debut, The Spring and coil of Kasper Meier, was the winner of the Betty Trask Prize 2015 and the HWA 2015 Debut Crown Honor. The Other Hoffmann Sister is a gripping, evocative report about two sisters set in pre-WWI Germany that may appeal to followers of The Essex Serpent by Sarah Perry. For Ingrid Hoffmann, the storyline of her sister's disappearance started out in their first weeks in Southwest Africa.... Ingrid Hoffmann has always sensed responsible for her sister, Margarete, and when their family moves to German Southwest Africa in 1902, her anxieties only increase. The everyday racism that pervades the German community, the bizarre romantic relationship between her parents and Baron von Ketz, from whom they bought their land, and the strain with the neighborhood tribes all culminate in tragedy when Baron von Ketz is savagely murdered. Baroness von Ketz and their kid, Emil, flee with the Hoffmanns as the Baron's attackers burn up down the family's farm. Both families go back to Berlin, and Ingrid's concerns about Margarete are assuaged when she and Emil von Ketz become involved on the eve of the First World Conflict. But Margarete disappears on her behalf wedding nights at the von Ketzes' country house. The mystery of what took place to her sister haunts Ingrid, but as Europe descends into chaos, her expectation of discovering the reality becomes a lot more distant. Following the war, in the midst of the revolution that brings down the Kaiser and wipes out the aristocracy that her family married into, Ingrid dividends to the von Ketzes' crumbling property determined to determine what really took place to her sister.
