Tom Palmer’s powerful and moving novel After The War is inspired by the true-life story of The Boys – 300 Jewish refugee orphans, who were brought over to Britain at the end of the Second World War to begin a new life in the Lake District.

“To write poetry after Auschwitz is barbaric,” argued German philosopher Theodor W Adorno. He may have thought the same of painting, yet that is the task Marie Paneth set a group of young holocaust survivors in her care.