The Mare

Based on a true story - Hermine Braunsteiner was the first person to be extradited from the United States for Nazi war crimes. The Mare tells Hermine and Russell's story for the first time in fiction. It explores how an ordinary woman could descend so quickly into evil.

ANGHARAD HAMPSHIRE was born in Manchester in 1972. She has worked as a radio producer for BBC Radio 4 and the World Service in London, honorary lecturer in journalism at the University of Hong Kong and regular contributor to the South China Morning Post in Hong Kong. She has a Doctor of Arts in Creative Writing from the University of Sydney. Angharad currently teaches at York St John University on the Creative Writing MA. She lives in York with her family