English writer’s forgotten ‘masterpiece’ predicting rise of Nazis gets new lease of life

08/02/2025 05:00 The Guardian

Crooked Cross, Sally Carson’s ‘electrifying’ 1934 novel to be republishedSally Carson was not an oracle or a prophet, just a young woman from Dorset, born in 1901. Yet she foresaw a dark and violent future for Europe and gave voice to those fears in a 1934 novel that is now being hailed as “an electrifying masterpiece”.Carson’s book, Crooked Cross, predicted the scale of the Nazi threat and is to be republished for the first time this spring, ahead of the 80th anniversary of the end of the second world war. Controversial in its day, her novel had to tread a careful path to avoid the accusation that it was alarmist about the Führer’s aims. A stage adaptation was even censored, shorn of all its “Heil Hitlers”. Continue reading...

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