An extract from the unabridged, downloadable audiobook edition of Rhidian Brook's powerful new thriller 'The Aftermath', read by the actor Leighton Pugh.


Hamburg, 1946. Thousands remain displaced in what is now the British Occupied Zone. Charged with overseeing the rebuilding of this devastated city and the de-Nazification of its defeated people, Colonel Lewis Morgan has requisitioned a fine house on the banks of the Elbe, where he will be joined by his grieving wife Rachael and only remaining son Edmund.

But rather than force its owners, a German widower and his traumatised daughter, to leave their home, Lewis insists that the two families live together. In this charged and claustrophobic atmosphere all must confront their true selves as enmity and grief give way to passion and betrayal.

The Aftermath is a stunning novel about our fiercest loyalties, our deepest desires and the transforming power of forgiveness.
 

The Aftermath by Rhidian Brook: (Audiobook Extract read by Leighton Pugh)

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The Aftermath by Rhidian Brook: (Audiobook Extract read by Leighton Pugh)

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