Testament

Shortlisted for the Sunday Times / University of Warwick Young Writer of the Year Award 2019

Longlisted for the Desmond Elliot Prize

Winner of the Bath Novel Award

Winner of the Harpers Bazaar Big Book of the Year

Shortlisted for the Best First Novel Award

Of everyone in her complicated family, Eva was always closest to her grandfather. She is making a film about his life. She is with him when he dies.

It is only when she finds the letter from the Jewish Museum in Berlin, hidden in his painting studio, that she realises how many secrets he kept.

As she uncovers everything he endured in the Holocaust - and what it took to learn to live again - Eva is confronted by the lies that haunt her family, and a truth that changes her own identity.

Kim Sherwood's hope-filled first novel is a powerful portrait of survival echoing through the generations; a testament of love, legacy, and all the important questions we leave unasked.