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THE DIGNITY OF SILENCE IBD

THE BOOK GUILD
02 / 2022
9781913913670
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Prague. ItâÇÖs l942, and all Jews are being summoned to the Death Camps.ErnstâÇÖs wife dies in childbirth, and he escapes to London with his two-year old daughter Sophie. Grieving and guilt ridden he believes the pain of their loss can only be dealt with by remaining silent about their past.áA decision that determines SophieâÇÖs future.Sophie, motherless with an over-protective father, grows up to be submissive and lacking confidence.ááFriendless at University she meets Mark, a man quite unlike her father, falls pregnant, marries and after childbirth suffers a puerperal depression. She is befriended by Angelica and Emma who have both also given birth to boys.ááThe three young mothers, each providing something lacking in the other, become firm friends.Twenty years pass, Sophie is bereft when Angelica dies.áShe goes with her father to Prague and is devastated to learn why he would never speak of the past.áBack home Mark is having an affair.áSophie sees everybody she loves: Her husband, her children, her father and her friends - all sensitive to her vulnerability have tried in their silences to protect her. Now, knowing her past, she is more able to face the future.

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