Young Gustav Perle lives in 'neutral' Switzerland, where the horrors of the Second World War seem a distant echo. He develops an intense friendship with a Jewish boy, Anton Zwiebel, which will impact on his entire life. In her heart-breaking new novel exploring friendship and betrayal, Rose Tremain, bestselling author of THE ROAD HOME, asks: what is the difference between friendship and love?
What is the difference between friendship and love? Gustav grows up in a small town in Switzerland, where the horrors of the Second World War seem a distant echo. But Gustav's father has mysteriously died, and his adored mother Emilie is strangely cold and indifferent to him. Gustav's life is a lonely one until he meets Anton. An intense lifelong friendship develops but Anton fails to understand how deeply and irrevocably his life and Gustav's are entwined until it is almost too late...
