Reading Jani Friese: “Where the sea meets hope”

An event as part of the Week of Remembrance

Reading Jani Friese: “Where the sea meets hope”. A cooperation between Haus Lebenstein and the Gronau public library, venue: Gronau public library, advance booking: 8 euros, box office 10 euros (tickets available at the Gronau public library and at the Epe library branch).

A story like a storm at sea. You never know where it will take us and when the waves will calm down, but hope returns to us with every single wave.

It’s still Norderney, Romy thinks to herself. White dunes and the sound of the sea – that’s exactly what she needs to finally be able to breathe again. But when she meets the attractive Jakob, the peace and quiet is over. The reason for this is not only his charming nature, which Romy finds hard to resist, but also a seventy-year-old letter that unexpectedly flutters into the letterbox of her vacation accommodation one day. When more letters turn up a little later, Romy and Jakob know that they hold the key to a secret that has been lying dormant all these years. What do the two friends in the letters have to do with Norderney, and who is the man who installed the blue and white tiles in the old mill? Jakob and Romy come across a dark chapter from the past that gets under their skin and changes their own lives forever.

This poignant story tells of a new love on Norderney and a friendship in the shadow of war. Of courageous friends and secrets that bind them together through stormy times. They risk everything to escape the nightmare and find their way to freedom.