The wish child

Catherine Chidgey

earliest edition we have, 2016 Victoria University Press, 2016 383 pages

Germany, 1939. Two children watch as their parents become immersed in the puzzling mechanisms of power. Sieglinde lives in the affluent ignorance of middle-class Berlin, her father a censor who excises prohibited words ("promise", "love", "mercy") from books. Erich is an only child living a lush rural life near Leipzig, tending beehives, aware that he is shadowed by strange, unanswered questions. Drawn together as Ge...

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Editions we hold

Wish Child edition · 2020 · Counterpoint Press · 384 pages · 9781640092679
The wish child edition · 2018 · 371 pages · 9781640090972
The Wish Child audiobook · 2018 · HighBridge Audio · 9781684416349
Wish Child edition · 2018 · Penguin Random House · 384 pages · 9781784704339
The Wish Child Lib/E audiobook · 2018 · HighBridge Audio · 9781665131995
Wish Child edition · 2017 · Penguin Random House · 9781473545946
Wish Child edition · 2017 · Penguin Random House · 9781784741105
Wish Child edition · 2017 · Penguin Random House · 384 pages · 9781784741112
Wish Child edition · 2016 · Victoria University Press · 383 pages · 9781776560622

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