Jewish Book Week 2019 has just drawn to a close and I was privileged to attend the inspiring appearance of Anita Lasker-Wallfisch at King’s Place, where she repeated (in English) her address of last year to the German Bundestag describing her early life and her survival in Auschwitz and the role of her cello-playing in that story.
By chance, on the train to London that weekend (not knowing that we were due to attend that event) I read, almost at a sitting, “A Woman of War”. This is a first novel by Mandy Robotham. It seemed to me to be very well researched and the lead character, a midwife caught helping Jewish women give birth, felt very authentic. It is fiction, but so cleverly woven into the factual history of the time, one could almost believe it could have happened. Highly recommended.
By chance, on the train to London that weekend (not knowing that we were due to attend that event) I read, almost at a sitting, “A Woman of War”. This is a first novel by Mandy Robotham. It seemed to me to be very well researched and the lead character, a midwife caught helping Jewish women give birth, felt very authentic. It is fiction, but so cleverly woven into the factual history of the time, one could almost believe it could have happened. Highly recommended.
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