Where madness lies : a novel
(Book)

This is a story about hope and redemption, about what we pass on - both genetically and culturally. It is about the high price of repression and how one woman, who lost nearly everything, must be willing to reveal the failures of the past in order to save future generations. Based on a true story of the author's own family, it tells of the intergenerational relationship of Rigmor who when a young Jewish woman in 1934 was a patient at Sonnenstein psychiatric institution in Nazi Germany and her sister Inga. In the present day, Inga now with her granddaughter Sabine. Inga is given a second chance to free someone she loves from oppressive forces, both within and without - something she failed to do for her sister Rignor.