I have Polish friends whose parents share a story similar to the family in this novel and I learned a great deal about not only life as a post war Pole in Britain, but also about the sufferings and repeated disappointments of the Polish people during the second world war. It's only with this kno...
I enjoyed Letters from Prague. It details a trip and a single mother makes with her daughter to find her first love from Czechoslovakia (not her daughters father). On the way they stay with family in Brussels, and then travel on to Berlin and finish the trip in Prague.I like the historical and ...