Over the Ocean - Softcover

Erica Fischer

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1843915049 ISBN 13: 9781843915041

Publisher: Hesperus Press Ltd, 2014

Synopsis

The extraordinary true love story of a couple who were separated during a shameful and fascinating chapter of British history.

Erica Fischer's Over the Ocean tells the extraordinary story of her own parents and sheds light on a little-known and little-discussed chapter in British history. Fischer's parents met in Austria in the early 1930s. Her mother, Irka, was a Polish Jew and her father, Erich, was a Viennese lapsed Catholic.

Faced with growing unrest in Europe, Irka fled to the United Kingdom in 1938, her husband followed a year later. However at the outbreak of war, Erich had been arrested as an 'enemy alien', and having been interned was deported to the opposite side of the world.

Faced with unimaginable hardships, the deportees banded together in solidarity to face their new life in Australia and Erich was, against the odds, able to make contact with Irka and their letters established a lifeline between continents.

Over the Ocean is astonishing true tale dealing with an unexposed and unexplored period in British history but also a story of the resilience of love.

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Review:

'Meticulously researched and moving' --Buchkultur Magazin

'An extremely haunting and captivating book' --Illustrierte Neue Welt

'A thrilling, beautiful book full of pain; --Muenchner Merkur

About the Author:

Erica Fischer was born to an emigre couple in England, and her family returned to Austria in 1948. She lives in Berlin and is a freelance writer and translator. Her true-life story Aimee & Jaguar <\em> was a bestseller, and has been translated into twenty languages.

About this edition

• Publisher: Hesperus Press Ltd
• Publication date: 2014
• ISBN 10: 1843915049
• ISBN 13: 9781843915041
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 224