MONIQUE CHARLESWORTH was born in Birkenhead, England, and has lived in France and Germany. A graduate of the National Film and Television School, she has written television dramas for the BBC. She is the author of four novels, including the highly acclaimed The Children’s War, which was partly a fictionalised story of her mother’s escape from Germany during the War. She lives with her husband in London.

'Mother Country is Charlesworth's moving attempt to come to terms with her own dysfunctional childhood: her obedient yet deeply ambivalent relationship with Inge, who was generous and loving yet unempathetic and self-centred ... A book is another way to honour the dead, and with this fine memoir Charlesworth ensures that her family’s past will not be forgotten.'

MONIQUE CHARLESWORTH was born in Birkenhead, England, and has lived in France and Germany. A graduate of the National Film and Television School, she has written television dramas for the BBC. She is the author of four novels, including the highly acclaimed The Children’s War, which was partly a fictionalised story of her mother’s escape from Germany during the War. She lives with her husband in London.

'Mother Country is Charlesworth's moving attempt to come to terms with her own dysfunctional childhood: her obedient yet deeply ambivalent relationship with Inge, who was generous and loving yet unempathetic and self-centred ... A book is another way to honour the dead, and with this fine memoir Charlesworth ensures that her family’s past will not be forgotten.'

MONIQUE CHARLESWORTH was born in Birkenhead, England, and has lived in France and Germany. A graduate of the National Film and Television School, she has written television dramas for the BBC. She is the author of four novels, including the highly acclaimed The Children’s War, which was partly a fictionalised story of her mother’s escape from Germany during the War. She lives with her husband in London.

'Mother Country is Charlesworth's moving attempt to come to terms with her own dysfunctional childhood: her obedient yet deeply ambivalent relationship with Inge, who was generous and loving yet unempathetic and self-centred ... A book is another way to honour the dead, and with this fine memoir Charlesworth ensures that her family’s past will not be forgotten.'