Paula Anna Woodford Stevie Smith

Stevie Smith

just eight months into their relationship

responsibility and atonement – a full and fascinating panorama of human life and society

and in 1957 was executed for her murder

“Here is all of the heartbreak and gravity of being human stripped of everything but its essential

Paula Anna Woodford Stevie SmithSandra Hoffmanns Paula is a moving piece of autofiction about the writers relationship to her grandmother, a devout Swabian Catholic who refused to reveal who fathered her child in 1946. Growing up in a family where silence reigns, Hoffmann asks: What kind of person, what kind of writer, does this environment produce?