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"This sequel to ""Reflections in an Oval Mirror"" details Anneli's post-war life. The scene changes from life in Northern 'West Germany' as a refugee, reporter and military interpreter, to parties with the Russian Authorities in Berlin, boating in the Lake District with the original 'Swallows and Amazons', weekends with the Astors at Cliveden, then a new family in the small Kentish village of St Nicholas-at-Wade. Finally, after the fall of the Iron Curtain, Anneli is able to revisit her childhood home once more."

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Anneli was born on an East Prussian farm in 1923. In 1945 she fled to the west and worked as an interpreter and journalist before moving to St Nicholas-at-Wade in Kent. There she brought up a family, while campaigning for peace and environmental causes. She died in 2011. Ben Jones won a scholarship to Oxford University to study Japanese, then lived in Japan for a few years. While there he started translating, in fields ranging from business and technology through to avant-garde drama and the Bujinkan martial arts (he was the interpreter for 'Ninja grandmaster' Hatsumi Masaaki at seminars around the world). He has since continued this work in the UK, becoming head of the Institute of Translation and Interpreting's Japanese Network, and now runs a successful languages business from his home in Kent. He also runs the boutique publishing house 'Ozaru Books' and performs as a professional musician. Adam Jones is a retired professor of African history and culture, who has has published extensively in both English and German on the sources and history of West Africa, especially the Gold Coast and Benin. He studied German and modern history at Oxford University, worked as a teacher in Sierra Leone, and obtained his PhD at the Centre of West African Studies at the University of Birmingham before taking up various positions in Germany, finally becoming professor at the University of Leipzig. He has also been editor of the journal History in Africa.

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