The Reader Condition:Good Performed variously as escapist fantasy

Performed variously as escapist fantasy

Mortmain needs one last item to complete his plan

and political allegory

"Village opera"

Esther Summerson watches as her friends and neighbours are consumed by their hopes and disappointments with the proceedings

The Reader Condition:Good Performed variously as escapist fantasyFor 15 year old Michael Berg, a chance meeting with an older woman leads to far more than he ever imagined. The woman in question is Hanna, and before long they embark on a passionate, clandestine love affair which leaves Michael both euphoric and confused. For Hanna is not all she seems. Years later, as a law student observing a trial in Germany, Michael is shocked to realize that the person in the dock is Hanna. The woman he had loved is a criminal.