Book description
A magnificent reconstruction of Poland and her people from the Second
World War to Solidarity From the streets of Nazi-occupied Warsaw,
through the lonely dreams of a little Polish boy growing up in Clapham
in the fifties, to a candlelit vigil for Solidarity outside London's
Polish Embassy - this is the tragic story of Poland seen through the
fortunes of a single family. Jan and Anna Prawicki survived Hitler's
devastation of Warsaw, and fled, haunted by the past, to England.
Through their own struggles, the memories of their parents and the
developing lives and loves of their children, Jerzy and Ewa, we enter
the terrors of war, occupation, repression and resistance, as
individuals and a nation struggle for life and liberty. '... embraces
the experience of two generations of Poles . . . An alluring subject,
skilfully constructed' Daily Telegraph Sue Gee is an acclaimed and
established novelist. Reading in Bed (2007) was a Daily Mail Book Club
selection; The Mysteries of Glass (2005) was long listed for the Orange
Prize for Fiction. She ran the MBA Creative Writing Programme at
Middlesex University from 2000-2008 and currently teaches at the Faber
Academy. Sue Gee has also published many short stories, some of which
have been broadcast on BBC Radio 4 and her most recent publication is a
collection of stories, Last Fling (Salt 2011). She lives in London and
Herefordshire
