Monster in the Ash

Sadie Shaposnick survived the war by running a black-market racket out of her husband’s East End butcher shop. When caught, she is rescued not through litigation, but bail money supplied by her sister’s wealthy in-laws – a debt that will not easily be forgotten. Soon after, her husband Leon returns from a German POW camp, profoundly altered by the trauma. Their marriage, now strained, persists more out of habit than love. Sadie and Leon live above the shop with Leon’s brother and his wife. ...