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The Writing on the Wall (MP3)
Released the same day as the standard print edition
Title:
The Writing on the Wall (MP3)
Written by:
Juliet Rieden 
Read by:
Abbe Holmes 
Format:
Unabridged MP3 CD Audio Book 
Number of CDs:
Duration:
10 hours  
MP3 size:
433 MB 
Published:
August 27 2019 
Available Date:
August 27 2019 
Age Category:
Adult 
ISBN:
9780655623373 
Genres:
Non-fiction; Historical; Memoirs; World War I 
Publisher:
Bolinda/Macmillan Australia 
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In 1939, as Hitler's troops are marching on Prague, a Jewish couple makes a heartbreaking decision that will save their eight-year-old son's life but change their family forever.

Australian journalist Juliet Rieden grew up in England in the 1960s and '70s always sensing that her family was different in some way. She wondered why she knew so little about her father's childhood, why her Czech grandmother had visited just once and why she had so few relatives. In 2006, on the night before Juliet's father died, he suddenly looked up and said: 'The plane is in the hangar.' In the years after his death, Juliet comes to truly understand the significance of these words. Her journey begins with a visit to the Pinkas Synagogue in Prague, where she finds the Rieden name repeated many times over on the walls. Juliet embarks on a quest to research her family history – and what she uncovers leads her to Theresienstadt and Auschwitz, where she traces the fate of her grandparents and cousins and aunts and uncles. As she finds answers, she unearths more questions, and she learns about the extremes of cruelty, courage and kindness. Meticulously researched and beautifully told, this is the story of a woman's quest to make sense of her father, and his determination to forge a life of connection and purpose from a childhood marred by so much loss.