Skadi Winter
Author of 'Hexe' and 'Malin and the Wolf children'
5 star reviews
REVIEWS
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This is a dark, almost mystical story of a young girl growing up with her grandmother in a remote German village shortly after WWII, trying to understand the violence, hatred, and prejudice of the time. Her grandmother is different than the other villagers, although she has suffered as much, if not more, as a result of the war. She gains strength from the ancient wisdom of those who came before. These things the girl struggles with, but learns from her grandmother than revenge and retribution are not for us to exact, but that the consequences of injustices inflicted follow the perpetrators.
KENDRA'S REVIEWS
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This engaging tale is told through the eyes of Frigg, a ten year old girl when the story opens, in a small German community shortly after the end of the second world war. The author perfectly captures the superstitions, the ill feeling and fear, present within the small rural community and in what is essentially a coming of age story, you learn to love the girl and her Grandmother Oma, a wise old woman who has been forced to raise the child.
Winter's writing style is woven in such a way that the reader is drawn in and is right in the heart of this fascinating tale,
MACKENZIE BROWN'S
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When I was a girl growing up in a Pennsylvania Dutch community in the Allegheny Highlands, my grandmother told tales about Hexe-women. One of my favorites was about how an old Hexe-woman had put a spell on their cow so it would not give milk (a disaster for a family of nine!) and how they had it removed. As a writer myself, I have written about my grandmother's stories so it was a thrill that I discovered this book. The main character, Frigg, is a young girl living in rural Germany at the end of the Second World War with a grandmother who is known as a "Hexe."
KATHLEEN VALENTINE'S REVIEWS
BIO
I was born in Germany shortly after the 2nd WW. Thanks to my parents- who had been more foreseeing than myself at the time – I enjoyed a solid high school education in Germany and achieved the equivalent of 6 A-levels (German, English, French, History, Geography and Religions). During the first third of my life I have been travelling through all the countries of Europe, Iran, Turkey and the U.S.A and have worked as a secretary, medical secretary and medical assistant in various hospitals and surgeries in Germany and the U.K. My greatest achievement are my 4 sons, whom I have brought up with love and passion. My 10 grandchildren are from 4 mothers of 4 different nationalities; a fact which seems to be the inspiration for my books. I am living in the U.K. at the moment because, I think, I am still not at the end of my journeys.
My books are written out of passion against racism, prejudice, discrimination. I truly believe in a world without hatred. I write against the lies which we have been told over centuries. History always is written by the victorious. My book I dedicate to women, mothers, daughters, grandmothers of different nations, to encourage. I want to light a fire of solidarity for those who are oppressed, tortured or only just misunderstood. I want to try and help my readers to think about the roots of their heritage, the ancient religions and ways of life. To understand the present, we have to know the past and, most of all, we have to understand each other.
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