{"product_id":"9780008164171_the-light-at-the-end-of-the-day","title":"The Light at the End of the Day","description":"\u003ch2\u003e\n          \u003cem\u003e\n            \u003cstrong\u003eA family scattered. \u003c\/strong\u003e\n          \u003c\/em\u003e\n        \u003c\/h2\u003e\u003ch2\u003e\n          \u003cem\u003e\n            \u003cstrong\u003eLovers torn apart. \u003c\/strong\u003e\n          \u003c\/em\u003e\n        \u003c\/h2\u003e\u003ch2\u003e\n          \u003cem\u003e\n            \u003cstrong\u003eA painting that unites them all.\u003c\/strong\u003e\n          \u003c\/em\u003e\n        \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.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\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 …\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\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\u003cp\u003eEleanor Wasserberg's The Light at the End of the Day is a compelling historical fiction that explores the harrowing journey of a family torn apart by World War II. This top-tier literary work is a poignant reminder of the resilience of the human spirit in times of crisis.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFor fans of Lissa Evans (Old Baggage), Ulrich Alexander Boschwitz (The Passenger), Dolly Alderton (Ghosts), and Stacey Lee (The Downstairs Girl).\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Eleanor Wasserberg, Read by Kate Sobey","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46889559752853,"sku":"9780008164171","price":35.99,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0484\/3175\/9509\/files\/9780008164171.jpg?v=1776888133","url":"https:\/\/harpercollins.com.au\/products\/9780008164171_the-light-at-the-end-of-the-day","provider":"HarperCollins AU","version":"1.0","type":"link"}