{"product_id":"9780008164164","title":"The Light at the End of the Day","description":"\u003ch2\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA family scattered. \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/h2\u003e\u003ch2\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eLovers torn apart. \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/h2\u003e\u003ch2\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA painting that unites them all.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/h2\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhen Jozef is commissioned to paint a portrait of the younger daughter of Kraków’s grand Oderfeldt family, it is only his desperate need for money that drives him to accept. He has no wish to indulge a pampered child-princess or her haughty, condescending parents – and almost doesn’t notice Alicia’s bookish older sister, Karolina.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBut when he is ushered by a servant into their house on Kraków’s fashionable Bernadyńska street in the winter of 1937, he has no inkling of the way his life will become entangled with the Oderfeldts'. Or of the impact that the German invasion will have upon them all.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAs Poland is engulfed by war, and Jozef’s painting is caught up in the tides of history, Alicia, Karolina and their parents are forced to flee – their Jewish identity transformed into something dangerous, and their comfortable lives overturned …\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSpanning countries and decades \u003cem\u003eThe Light at the End of the Day\u003c\/em\u003e is a heart-breaking novel of exile, survival and how we remember what is lost.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Eleanor Wasserberg","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47267872014485,"sku":"9780008164164","price":9.99,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0484\/3175\/9509\/files\/9780008164164.png?v=1776890015","url":"https:\/\/harpercollins.com.au\/products\/9780008164164","provider":"HarperCollins AU","version":"1.0","type":"link"}