Book description
On a narrow cobbled street in a northern mill town young Harry
Bernstein and his family face a daily struggle to make ends meet. This
is the true story of those harsh years, overshadowed by the First
World War.
Amidst the hardship and suffering, Harry's devoted mother clings to
a dream - that one day they might escape this grinding poverty for the
paradise of America. But the regular pleas to relatives in Chicago
yield nothing, until one day, when Harry is twelve years old, the
family looks on astonished as he opens a letter which contains the
longed-for steamship tickets.
But the better life of which they'd dreamed proves elusive.
Deprivation follows them to Chicago - and for Harry, life becomes more
difficult still as he finds himself torn between his responsibilities
to his mother, and his first love...
97-year-old Harry Bernstein emigrated to the USA with his family
after the First World War. He started writing THE INVISIBLE WALL after
the death of his wife of 67 years, Ruby. THE DREAM is his second book.
He lives in Brick, New Jersey.
