Where To Find Me

Alba Arikha Alma Books €18.19

It’s the summer of 1939, and Sorbonne student Flore Baum is drinking in all that Paris has to offer. But as a French Jew, her world is about to be ravaged by fascism. Loss will define her life, with the cruellest yet to come. Decades later, settled in London, she becomes a source of fascination for teenage Hannah, a neighbour who narrates portions of this elegant, incantatory novel. Its structure is rewardingly complex, and its subtle observations on history and experience are lingeringly poignant.

Hephzibah Anderson