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Cecelia Ahern’s TV film is a hit with German viewers More than 6m Germans and 750,000 Austrians tuned in to ‘Between Heaven and Here’ last Sunday evening, For 90 minutes Germans could luxuriate in Ahern’s whimsical love story set in lush green landscapes, cosy pubs, mossy graveyards. Our heroine Amelia Theresa, an auburn-haired Munich bookseller discovers that her parents adopted her at birth from Ireland. Amelia, played by soap star-turned-singer Yvonne Catterfeld, eventually finds her birth parents in Ireland: an ageing rocker and a green-fingered nun in an enclosed order. Along the way Amelia swaps Frederick, her loser German fiance, for Irish man Bobby O’Brien, a free-spirited, tweed-sporting, tea-slurping private detective and part-time musician. Ahern is a big name in German popular fiction, contributing about half of her 16 million sales, and reaction to the movie was overwhelmingly positive.