Vera, the Moor-Lady

Peat cutters lead a miserable life in the 1930ies. Hard work and low wages belong to their everyday life. In these surroundings in 1936 a woman painfully bears a child.Vera early learns that it is no bed of roses to be a moor child. She already has to share work at the age of five. A few years later her father volunteers to the Wehrmacht and her mother dies in a hospital from an obstruction of the bowels which was identified too late. Now she and her six years older brother have to survive on their own. They struggle through the years, have a child and by their being different soon attract the envy of the village people. This leads to their decision that they pack their things and move to be able to make their happy life still happier. Victoria Grantz retold the true story of a moor inhabitant in a fascinating and humorous way. The author again succeeded to carry off the reader into a world unknown to many people.