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The Rosenstraße Protests

The Rosenstraße Protests

The novelist discusses the inspiration behind The Woman Who Risked Everything.
Ellie Midwood

When I first read about the Rosenstraße protests, the only successful event that lasted for several days and resulted in the protesters’ victory, I just knew I had to write the story of these incredible women. Yes, it was mostly women who gathered in front of the...

Ellie Midwood on The Wife Who Risked Everything

Ellie Midwood on The Wife Who Risked Everything

The novelist discusses her latest novel, set in Berlin during WW2.
Ellie Midwood

Ellie Midwood, many congratulations on the new novel. What inspired you to write about the Second World War? Thank you so much, and as for the inspiration, it was family history mostly. As a child, I preferred my grandfather’s war stories to normal kiddie fairy tales...