Somewhere Else

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Rosa Roshkin is five years old when her family are murdered in a pogrom and she is forced to leave behind everything she knows with only a suitcase of clothes and her father’s viol in. An epic generational novel about womanhood and Judaeo-Scottish experience across two World Wars, the creation of Israel and the fall of the Berlin Wall.Somewhere Else explores today’s most difficult and urgent questions, not least of which: how to find identity in displacement. 'Jenni Daiches has astonishingly re-created a lost world... I wept and laughed and wished I had written it.’ Miriam Margolyes Show more