Michèle Roberts

Michèle Roberts has published novels, poetry, memoirs, short stories and essays. She is Professor Emeritus at UEA. She regularly broadcasts on radio and reviews for the TLS. She is half French and half English. She is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.
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The Meeting
The horror of the Holocaust seen through the prism of two brothers from a German Jewish family, Richard and Arthur Lindner. In The Meeting Elsbeth Lindner remembers her uncle and her father. In drawing together two very different lives – the huge success in America of her artist uncle (chosen as one of the individuals featured on the cover of the Beatles’ iconic Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band) and her father’s more modest time in Britain â...