From the Booker Prize nominee and Whitbread Prize winner, a sweeping novel about the nature of human freedom and human passion that received glowing praise in hardcover.
On July 20, 1944, Adolf Hitler narrowly escaped an assassination attempt. He found the main conspirators and had them hanged from meat hooks. Axel, Count von Gottberg, was one of those hanged by Hitler. Sixty years later, Conrad Senior, a former student of one of Axel’s most trusted friends, is left some of his personal papers and is immediately drawn into a web of jealousy, passion, and betrayal. The more he scrambles to uncover the truth, the more complex he finds the relationship between the two friends.
Wonderfully written—and based on true events—The Song Before It is Sung is a novel of profound and sensitive insight into the human condition, surpassing all of Cartwright’s previous works in its scope and ambition.