Shining Through
£2.77
Stunning and imaginative - Despite being American, Susan Isaacs is my all-time favourite writer, and this book helps illustrate why. For sheer imagination, it s difficult to beat this story of a Jewish girl escaping from an unhappy marriage into wartime Europe. The denouement doesn t exactly come as a surprise, but by then you re so wrapped up in the story that it doesn t matter. If anyone has seen the film, with Michael Douglas and Melanie Griffith, supposedly based on this book, don t be put off by it. The real story is completely different.