Based on true events, bestselling author Mechtild Borrmann tells the life stories of three women whose fates intersect between the Second World War and the fall of the Berlin Wall in her major contemporary historical novel "Lebensbande".

From the Second World War to the fall of the Wall, the threads of fate connect Lene, Nora and Lieselotte: although they meet as strangers in a time of fear and terror, they become friends who support each other and take great risks. Nurse Nora does everything she can to help Lene save the life of her young son Leo. Because of a slight handicap, Leo is considered a "Reich Committee child". Nora meets Lieselotte in Danzig in 1942. Three years later, the women were deported to a gulag in the Soviet Union - as part of the 900,000 workers that Stalin had been promised as part of the reparations payments. In the end, Lieselotte gives up everything she still has to enable Nora to return home ...

Contemporary history, inspired by true events and fates and told as excitingly as a crime novel

Mechtild Borrmann is a master at telling deeply human stories without pathos. In "Lebensbande", the bestselling author also creates great suspense on two time levels. Shocking and yet full of hope, she shows how closely great tragedy and tender happiness can lie side by side.