Ambitious, tragic and timely ... Meticulously researched, this book insists we confront the ­complexity of truth, uncomfortable as that may be. It's also a fierce celebration of the messy nature of humanity itself

Daily Mail

A book that walks a tightrope between realism and imagination, and creates something spirited and memorable as it does so .... A journey to identify what makes us human and what destroys that humanity ... Adelheid's joy adds up to a great paean to the humanity that the Nazis wanted to destroy

GUARDIAN, Book of the Day

Compelling, deeply researched … Adelheid is an enchanting creation … as tense as a thriller and profoundly moving

Spectator

A vividly imagined story told with real drive and heart

Rachel Seiffert

An ambitious piece of writing … Propulsive … it is Jolly's great gift to open up to us worlds we might never have known and make us feel that we truly understand them

Harper's Bazaar

Asks us to remember the averted gaze of so many 'ordinary' Viennese during the Second World War and beyond.

Literary Review