Book description
Book 3: The Louise trilogy. The year is 1913. The portrait of
Louise is now hanging in the home of a Jewish family, the Abrahams, in
Vienna. Izaac Abrahams is showing early signs of the talent that will
make him a famous violin virtuoso and often practices in front of the
picture. After the Anschluss of 1939, Izaac is sent to the
Theresienstadt concentration camp and then to Auschwitz. The portrait
of Louisa falls into the hands of Erich Hoffman, an SS officer, and
seems destined to join the art collection being amassed on the orders
of Adolf Hitler What now for Louise and her portrait? Can Louise save
Izaac from the gas chamber and Erich from his Nazism? And what is to
be her decision on her own future? Aubrey Flegg's Louise trilogy began
with Wings Over Delft, winner of the Bisto Book of the Year Award 2004
and the Reading Association of Ireland Award 2005, and continued with
The Rainbow Bridge.
Aubrey Flegg was born in Dublin. His early childhood was spent in
County Sligo, Ireland. He went to school in Dublin and later in England.
After a spell with a mountain rescue team in Scotland, he returned to
Ireland to study geology at Trinity College. He then did geological
research in Kenya, before joining the Geological Survey of Ireland in
1968. Aubrey recently took early retirement in order to concentrate on
writing. His first book, Katie's War, is about the civil war period in
Ireland; it was published in 1997. Katie's War has recently won the
Peter Pan Award 2000 -- an award created by IBBY Sweden for a children's
book, translated into Swedish, which gives information on another
culture. Wings Over Delft, the first book in the Louise trilogy, won the
Bisto Book of the Year overall award in 2004.
