Most of the book's heroes are real people, and the idea of the novel was born of the encounter between Anna Funder and Ruth Blatt. But the author's talent is to have been able to use this storyline to write a novel that reads like a real thriller, driving the reader in the footsteps of his characters, which follows the constant struggle and inexorable fall face a much more powerful enemy who will stop at nothing. The real hero of the book, Dora Fabian, was a journalist and anti-Nazi who was murdered in mysterious circumstances in London in 1943. The plot is dual policy in the novel Dune Funder amour, over the complicated relationships that are forged between the main protagonists.
Much more than a witness to an eventful time, so it comes in a genuine novels in which history serves as a backdrop, and where the truth of the characters is independent of their historical truth. Anna Funder has yet undertaken extensive research to write his book, but she manages to sémanciper the storyline to give his work a romantic breath that takes the reader.