Audrey Laski
Last Updated on June 7, 2022, by eNotes Editorial. Word Count: 78
[Summer of My German Soldier seems to me likely] to disturb a reader as young as its 12-year-old heroine, because of the domestic violence and bitterness it records. And though sex does not happen in it, the heroine's vicious father is convinced that it must since his daughter has done the unthinkable for a Jewish girl and helped a German soldier to escape.
Audrey Laski, "Partridge in a Pear Tree," in The Times Educational Supplement, No. 3261, December 9, 1977, p. 21.∗
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