Book description
FAR TO GO is a powerful and profoundly moving story about one family's
epic journey to flee the Nazi occupation of their homeland in 1939, and
above all to save the life of a six-year-old boy. Pavel and Anneliese
Bauer are affluent, secular Jews, whose lives are turned upside down by
the arrival of the German forces in Czechoslovakia. Desperate to avoid
deportation, the Bauers flee to Prague with their six-year-old son,
Pepik, and his beloved nanny, Marta. When the family try to flee without
her to Paris, Marta betrays them to her Nazi boyfriend. But it is
through Marta's determination that Pepik secures a place on a
Kindertransport, though he never sees his parents or Marta again.
Inspired by Alison Pick's own grandparents who fled their native
Czechoslovakia for Canada during the Second World War, FAR TO GO is a
deeply personal and emotionally harrowing novel.
