I just finished Mr. Rosenblum Dreams in English. Usually I read non-fiction unless a fictional story is based on a true story. I Have toured the English countryside and had German-immigrant decendants who left me with fond memories of their stories their antics, their baking and their language, I enjoyed every chapter. Thank you! Your descriptive words and phrases take the reader right into the story. I’ll look forward to the next Natasha Solomons novel.

One thing puzzles me though: the use of Yiddish by German emigrants. My impression has long been that German Jews spoke, even within the household, in German. Dialects usually only survive among remote enclaves. My parents, for example, came from rural Poland, which might be called the heartland of Yiddish until the Holocaust.

It may be that there was a class distinction between those German Jews whose families had been established over centuries and more recent immigrants from the East, who mostly would have been poorer and more easily identified as a minority group. I do recall, as a student in Cologne at the beginning of the 1960s, that occasional Yiddish words and expressions found their way into items in the local newspapers (tzooris, etc.). I also read somewhere that Yiddish was adopted by members of the underworld as a way of communicating among themselves in a way that the police could not understand.

Thanks for writing that book.

This MUST become a series on the BBC!!!!! I do hope your agent is able to make it happen!