The courage to rebuild and new threats - Katja Maybach’s own family stories inspired her to this opulently told chronicle
A fashionable spar hotel in turbulent times
In 1930, sisters Luise and Victoria Laverne are starting afresh: While in Berlin Victoria is celebrating her first success as a costume designer, Luise manages to gradually rebuild the spar hotel Deutscher Kaiser after a dreadful fire and at the same time she finds a new love. But then the granddaughter of the arsonist appears on the scene and wants to complete revenge of her grandfather and destroy the Laverne family..
Katja Maybach wrote her first novel and several short stories at the age of twelve. But she has always had a second passion for fashion. And so she won the designer prize of a big German women’s magazine for the design of an evening dress at the age of fifteen. She went to Paris at seventeen and first became a model in a Couture house, later a successful designer. Following a serious illness, she began writing successful novels. Her debut novel “Eine Nacht im November” was a great success and became a bestseller in France. The author now lives in Munich and has two grown-up children.
