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DARKNESS DOES NOT COME AT ONCE

Glenn Bryant

ISBN 978-1-916668-63-8

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Publication: 26 APRIL 2024
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ISBN: 9781916668638
Price: £9.99
Binding: Paperback

Format: 198 x 129 mm
Extent: 264 pp
Thema: FV Historical fiction

Author location: Henley-on-Thames

Book location: Germany

• Under new racial laws in Berlin in 1939, Meike,
a seventeen-year-old girl who uses a
wheelchair, is arrested and secretly
imprisoned in a nearby hospital. People trust
the state will care for her, but Meike's
grandmother Marta believes something is
wrong.
• Based on real events. From 1939–41, the
German government deceived thousands of
Glenn Bryant is a former daily news journalist who now works as a parents of disabled children – children who
senior copywriter for a financial technology company. Darkness Does were murdered in what became a training
Not Come at Once is his second novel, following A Quiet Genocide, ground for the 1941–45 Holocaust.
published in 2018. Glenn is a full-time registered carer for his wife, • Inspired by the author's experiences as a full-
Juliet, who has a spinal cord injury and together they live in South time carer, and sharing a light on an oft-
Oxfordshire. He can be found on social media @glennmbryant. forgotten part of history, the book explores
everyday disability identity and what it means
for an individual to be free.

Meike is seventeen and uses a wheelchair. Already in life
she’s accepted that she’ll always somehow be ‘different’.
But overnight different becomes dangerous after the
government announces disabled youngsters under the age
of eighteen must spend the war in specially designated
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in a country they no longer recognise, themselves.