The Curtain Falls

When Simon and Lydia West discover two skeletons in a strange underground building in their garden, their peaceful lives in a Somerset village are thrown into turmoil. So are their neighbours, the Fitzhughs, who years before lost their daughter in Nazi-dominated Berlin. Did she have links with one of the young men in the garden? Did she too have to die? Across several decades, a tortuous path of love, revenge, political brutality and fragile friendships weaves its way in the plot of this pacey three part thriller. Wartime Florence. . . peacetime Bath. . . Poole Harbour. . . Bavaria and Bonn. . . the drama swings back and forth as hard-forged loyalties, extremist views and irrepressible demands for power rise to the surface. Old bones tell many stories. The Curtain Falls is one of the finest, revealing a Britain - and a Germany - now changed for ever.