Maisie Mosco bola autorkou, ktorá sa ponorila do bohatej tapisérie rodinnej histórie a židovskej kultúry. Jej diela, často čerpajúce z osobných skúseností, skúmajú témy identity a dedičstva. Mosco mala talent zachytiť esenciu rodinných ság a zároveň vytvárať pútavé príbehy. Jej literárne dedičstvo spočíva v živom zobrazení života a vplyvu migrácie na rodiny a komunity.
By the author of "Out of the Ashes" and "A Sense of Pride", this story revolves around Bella Minsky. When her mother dies in 1937 Bella is left with the responsibility of looking after her family, which means sacrificing her place at Oxford to run the family haberdashery business.
A modern matriarch takes over from her dead grandmother, determined to maintain the family loyalty and simple values she fears that the younger generation has lost. A family saga of the eighties in which the shadow of neo-Nazism lives side by side with human drama.
An alternative cover for this ISBN can be found hereContinuing the family saga which began with "Almonds and Raisins", this book sees the family's stability and happiness overtaken by the approach of World War II and the growing Nazi movement in England. This series continues with "Children's Children", one of the author's eight bestsellers.