The memories of the summer holidays with her grandmother are dazzling and magical, the secrets in the old empty house are dark. Katharina Hagena tells of the women of a family, mixing the fates of three generations. A novel about remembering and, above all, about forgetting - moving and funny, tender and clever. Biography Katharina Hagena, born in 1967 in Karlsruhe, studied English and German in Marburg, London and Freiburg and wrote her doctorate on James Joyce. She received a research fellowship from the James Joyce Foundation in Zurich and worked as a lecturer at Trinity College in Dublin. Today she teaches English literature at the University of Hamburg and is writing a book about towers in literature. Book 2026 New