Devotion

Madeline Stevens
Faber, £12.99, pp304

Novels about nannies have become common since the success of Leïla Slimani’s Lullaby, but Stevens’s is complex and psychologically taut. Since moving to New York from Oregon, Ella has been lonely and broke: she now seduces men in exchange for dinner. When she begins nannying for a rich Upper East Side couple – Lonnie and James – she thinks her fortunes have changed. But her employers’ relationship is far from straightforward and before long Ella is sucked into a world of extramarital affairs and decadent behaviour.

Dinner With Edward: A Story of an Unexpected Friendship

Isabel Vincent
Pushkin Press, £12.99 , pp224

When Vincent’s marriage was falling apart, she befriended the father of a friend, a recently widowed man in his 90s. Over weekly dinners prepared by Edward, the two began to share their stories. Food as a metaphor for emotional and psychological nourishment is far from a new conceit, but there is much to find endearing in Vincent’s memoir: Edward delivers life lessons with the same apparent ease as he cooks delicious French recipes.

The Boy Who Followed His Father Into Auschwitz

Jeremy Dronfield
Penguin, £8.99, pp432

This tells the inspiring true story of Gustav and Fritz Kleinmann, an Austrian father and son who managed to survive internments in concentration camps from Buchenwald to Auschwitz. Dronfield draws extensively on Gustav’s diary, allowing us inside the incredible bond between father and son that kept them together through harrowing experiences, and, like all the best narrative nonfiction, the story is both immersive and extraordinary. Deeply moving and brimming with humanity.

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