这本图画书改编自Thomas Harding入围英国科斯塔图书奖决赛名单的成人传记，书中精美的插图来自Britta Teckentrup。

在柏林郊区，一栋木质小屋矗立在湖畔。在一个世纪的时间里，这栋小房子曾接待过一个充满爱意的犹太家庭、一位**的纳粹作曲家、战时难民和一位史塔西线人；在这期间，一场世界大战来了又去，柏林墙就在离小木屋后门咫尺之遥的地方建起。

A beautiful picture-book adaptation of Thomas Harding's Costa-shortlisted biography for adults, exquisitely illustrated by Britta Teckentrup.

On the outskirts of Berlin, a wooden cottage stands on the shore of a lake. Over the course of a century, this little house played host to a loving Jewish family, a renowned Nazi composer, wartime refugees and a Stasi informant; in that time, a world war came and went, and the Berlin Wall was built a stone's throw from the cottage's back door.

Thomas Harding first shared this remarkable story in his Costa-shortlisted biography The House by the Lake – now he has rendered it into a deeply moving picture-book for young readers. With words that read like a haunting fairy-tale, and magnificent artwork by Britta Teckentrup, this is the astonishing true story of the house by the lake.