S M Saunders grew up in London. She practised as a nurse at Westminster Hospital before working for BBC Radio at Broadcasting House. She married and lived in Oxford and then moved to Cyprus for three years. On her return, she studied for an English and Linguistics degree and lectured in a Sixth Form College and for the Open University. She brought up three children in Hampshire where she still lives. She is a prize-winning poet. Her first collection Blue Water Café was published by Oversteps Books in 2014, followed by her second collection Split the Lark published under her marital name Sue Davies in June 2021.
Thrust into a hostile world, and unable to comprehend the language, Heike, an immigrant and 'enemy' child, struggles to understand the English islanders as she adjusts to the new identity demanded of her.
Intent on escaping the traumas of growing up in fascist Germany and the...
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