TASTE APPLE SEEDS - Softcover

Hagena's sensitivity and attention to detail, and a narrator whose honesty and comical clumsiness keep the story light and engaging, have universal appeal.--Sunderland Echo

"Intriguing and carefully written."--Daily Mail (London)

"Hagena's sensitivity and attention to detail, and a narrator whose honesty and comical clumsiness keep the story light nad engaging, have a universal appeal."--Irish News

"This melancholy novel about lifting the layers of history is packed with gorgeous imagery and undertones of buried secrets...Sultry, tragic and intensely atmospheric."--The Times (London)

Trespassing from emotion to tenderness, from laughing to tragedy. Katharina Hagena retraces subtly the destiny of each of her characters who are all related to each other. In a fluid and delicate writing style she intertwines remembering and forgiving, a moving story.--Notes Bibliographiques

"There is an enchantment about this book which is almost like a fable...With seamless flash-backs Katharina Hagena retellst he story of this friendship."--Ballarat Courier

"Unbearably moving but ultimately uplifting."--Good Housekeeping, UK

"The book works a slow charm as Iris chronicles the love life of one aunt after another."--Metro London

"It's easy to see why this riveting gothic saga spent two years on the German bestseller list."--Saga Magazine

"Hagena writes in sensual, poetic prose, bringing a fairy-tale quality to her gothic tale of family secrets and deceits."--Booklist