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Berlin Duet
First published 2024
Berlin, 1938. English intelligence officer Harry Taverner and Jewish photographer Anna Cantrell meet beneath the surface glamour of a city already dominated by the Nazi regime. Anna is married, Europe is moving towards war, and their brief encounter seems destined to remain an interruption rather than the beginning of a shared life. The political catastrophe that follows scatters ordinary assumptions about home, family and loyalty, leaving both characters marked by losses that cannot be contained within the years of fighting.
They meet again in the ruins of post-war Berlin, where Anna is searching for her missing children and Harry is operating in a city becoming a frontline of the Cold War. As the Soviet blockade tightens around the Western sectors, their private history becomes inseparable from occupation politics, intelligence work and the struggle to survive among competing powers. Perry uses the divided city across two decisive moments—Nazi Berlin before the war and blockade Berlin after it—to build a love story about memory, compromise and secrets whose consequences extend far beyond 1948.
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