Betony Falk is in her late 20s. Both her parents died when she was young, and she was brought up by her grandmother. With time on her hands between jobs she decides to find out more about her father’s death, which her grandmother has always surrounded in mystery. She finds no death certificate for Henry, her father’s name, but only one for Herman Falk—no birth certificates for either. The death certificate hints at suicide. Betony confronts her grandmother with her findings and the latter confesses that the boy she brought up was a German Jewish refugee baby, a substitute for her own stillborn Henry. Her own sense of identity undermined, Betony sets out on a heartrending quest for the truth which takes her to Germany and into the past, only to discover that the more she finds out the less she knows who she is now.
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'Maureen Duffy is one of the few British writers of fiction of real class' Financial Times / 'An experienced, prolific novelist; nothing she writes can fail.' Daily Telegraph / 'Maureen Duffy is one of Britain's foremost writers.' Guardian / 'A fine novelist, Maureen Duffy delves into the recent past to produce a rivetting read.' Daily Mail / 'Vivid, moving and with Duffy's unerring eye for detail and gift for storytelling.' Shena Mackay / 'A novel that makes you think and feel at the same time.' Allan Massie, The Scotsman / 'Duffy has lost none of her fire! and she writes like a dream.' The Spectator / 'Her vivid, clear, elegant prose makes Restitution a pleasure to read.' Sunday Telegraph
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A prolific poet and playwright, Maureen Duffy is the author of Wounds, Capital, and Londoners: An Elegy (the Londoners trilogy) and has written biographies of Purcell and Aphra Benn.
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