Let Us Be True

<p>Paris 1958.</p><p>Ralf is alone filling his days with glasses of red wine at Jacques' bar waiting for life to happen to him. Then one night Elsa - bold enigmatic unpredictable - whirls into Jacques' bar and into Ralf's world knocking him out of his cautious routine and into a life full of spontaneity and excitement.</p><p>But Elsa is hiding something. As Ralf falls deeper in love he reveals more of his past - his childhood in Nazi Germany his time in a British tank division at the end of the Second World War. But what is Elsa hiding? And can their love survive it?</p><p><i>Let Us Be True </i>charts the lives of these two extraordinary characters through an era of great uncertainty from the war and its aftermath through to the deadly unrest of 1960s Paris. </p><p>Evocative charismatic and sweeping in scope Alex Christofi's second novel is a moving story of love and loss of the things we hide from ourselves and from others and of the personal cost of Europe's turbulent twentieth century.</p>>