Only a thin sheet of glass separates peace and insanity...Based on a true story, using real letters and personal accounts, this is a tale of love and courage beyond reason and against the odds. Caught in the turbulence of the 1930s, with Fascism on the rise, Jane Deering finds herself drawn into the underground world of the German Resistance. From Berlin to Madrid, she witnesses brutality and carnage, delving intoa darkness that exposes her deepest insecurities.Torn between lovers - smooth-talking, married MP Walter and steadfast, loyal Richard - she is devastated when colleagues question her morality. As her relationship with her mother and her beloved brother breaks down, she becomes increasingly isolated.When Karl, a university friend now working for the German Foreign Office, gets in touch to ask her a special favour, Jane begins to feel that she is being watched. She is surrounded by people who don't understand there is little standing between them and the horrors in Berlin. Driven by her strong social conscience, she puts politics ahead of survival. Each step towardsthe enemy leads her closer to disintegration...Pippa Beecheno's A Thin Sheet of Glass is a dissection of a life destined to unravel. It is harrowing and uplifting in turns, as trust, hope and love are tested to the limits of endurance.'Pippa Beecheno's fact-based first novel shows how far we have come in the treatment ofserious mental illness in the last hundred years... an important contribution' - Natasha Cooper,author and book reviewer.'A heart-breaking story told with such perfect clarity and restraint as to make it even more poignant and thought provoking. Jane is a character who will haunt me.' - Ruth Hogan, author.Pippa Beecheno has a first class degree in English Literature from the University of St Andrews, and an MA in Social Anthropology from the SOAS, University of London. After university, she worked as a Community Development Manager for various charities. With a growing family to look after, she began writing fiction whenever the opportunity arose, combining this with copywriting and proofreading. She is married and lives in South London with her husband and two young sons.