My Mother’s Secret
Sandra Hogan
In 1938, 15-year-old Rosa left behind her family at a German railway station. After the war she tried to shield her daughters from her past. But the past wouldn’t leave them alone.
On the eve of the Holocaust, Rosa is offered a seat on a Kindertransport train taking Jewish children to safety in England. On that day, she lost her whole world.
Sandra grew up in Brisbane with a mother who loved her two daughters deeply but never allowed them to know who she was. She guarded her secret until a phone call from a stranger sent them flying across the world to Israel, to Dresden, then a village in Ukraine to discover her mother’s other, secret life.
My Mother’s Secret is a story of trauma passed down through generations. It is about a battle between mother and daughter over what a child is entitled to know, and who owns family stories. And how finally knowing the truth can release them all.
A duet of grief and joy as a mother and daughter step free of black and white lives into full colour. As page-turning as a thriller.'
- Release
- Mar-2027
- ISBN
- 9781761474491
- RRP (AUD)
- $34.99
- Pages
- 336
- Format
- Paperback
- Category
- Memoir
Sandra Hogan
Sandra Hogan is a journalist, writer and reviewer, and the author of With My Little Eye (2021).
Allen & Unwin
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- Contact
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