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Patrick Worrall on The Partisan

Patrick Worrall on The Partisan

The author of an intricately plotted novel chats history and eastern Europe.
Patrick Worrall

Patrick Worrall, many congratulations on The Partisan, your first novel. Its genesis is interesting in itself. You’ve described seeing a photograph in Lithuanian museum of three girls holding German guns. How did you come up with the story? There were three elements...

The Forest Brothers, Lithuanian Partisans

The Forest Brothers, Lithuanian Partisans

The author of a new novel describes the brave partisans who fought Hitler and Stalin.

My first novel, The Partisan, is a story of love and revenge set in 1961, at the height of the Cold War, with long flashbacks to the Eastern Front at the end of World War Two. The history of Lithuania features heavily. This is largely due to chance: I happened to...