The Century of Zara Keff

Description

When Zara Keff is evacuated from London to Cambridgeshire in 1940, her extended family goes along too.

A model pupil, she relishes being in the thick of the local war effort, winning her school a prize for her tireless efforts on the home front. When tales of the suffering inflicted in occupied Europe begin to emerge, Zara is as horrified as any of her classmates. That horror is compounded by a shocking chance discovery, for Zara Keff is not quite who she thinks she is.

A tender, thought-provoking book about love, lies, and identity, it weaves the complex tale of the century itself through the lifetime of Zara Keff.

Jeremy Waxman started his career in education as a history teacher and later became a headteacher of schools in Yorkshire and London. He was awarded an OBE for services to education in 2006. Jeremy retired to Canterbury in 2017 and now pursues his enthusiasms for writing, traveling, film, jazz, cricket, and Tottenham Hotspur.