This is a superbly controlled emotional thriller of passion betrayal & conscience set in post-war Germany. Rhidian Brook takes a piece of history I thought I knew well & breaks it open. The Aftermath is a compelling surprising & moving novel". (Sadie Jones author of The Outcast). "A moving always enthralling journey... Rhidian Brook has written a brilliant novel". (Joseph O' Neill author of Netherland). " Arresting unsettling & compelling; suffused with suffering & hope". (Claire Messud author of The Emperor's Children Hamburg 1946). Thousands remain displaced in what is now the British Occupied Zone. Charged with overseeing the rebuilding of this devastated city & 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 & only remaining son Edmund. But rather than force its owners a German widower & his traumatised daughter to leave their home Lewis insists that the two families live together. In this charged & claustrophobic atmosphere all must confront their true selves as enmity & grief give way to passion & betrayal. The Aftermath is a stunning novel about our fiercest loyalties our deepest desires & the transforming power of forgiveness. The Aftermath is being developed as a feature film by Ridley Scott's production company Scott Free & BBC Films. Rhidian Brook is an award-winning writer of fiction television drama & film. His first novel The Testimony of Taliesin Jones won several prizes including the Somerset Maugham Award. His short stories have appeared in numerous publications including the Paris Review New Statesman & Time Out & have been broadcast on BBC Radio 4. He is also a regular contributor to ' Thought For The Day' on the Today programme."