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1 comments about The Letters of Rachel Henning (Penguin Australian womens library).

1. This book starts a little slow, as we are introduced to a rather stuffy young English lady, told through the letters she writes to family members in the mid-1800's. However, as the story unfolds, I found myself increasingly drawn into Rachel's world, and was reluctant to leave it. We follow her voyage from southern England to Australia, where she slowly adapts to and ultimately embraces life on the frontier, minus the many comforts with which she had been raised. We see not only Rachel's transformation, but a fascinating study of life in the Australian outback, and the triumph of hard work in a frontier that was at times quite harsh, yet which ultimately provided a good life. A very good book, particularly when you consider this story is told through a collection of real letters written by a real person. I bought this book used, but it has a permanent place in my library.

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1 comments about Klara.

1. "The family came together for a weekend. Gertrude and Fritz from Berlin; Bertha and Gottfried from Hamburg; Jacob from his studies in Bonn- There was no way they could know that they world never be together in quite this way never again, but they sensed it. Every moment was treasured. As if a late sun cast shadows to highlight each leaf and each blade of grass, they saw things about each other that normally they would have passed on."
   
   
   This novel of Klara Hoffmann is a narration of the way of life in Germany for her and her family during the Second World War. Klara, a strong woman, was the very tower of strength for her mother and father, and her sisters and brothers during this dreadful time in history. Day after day, their lives were pressured and their minds opened as they saw things they should not have seen and kept wondering, as German Jews, when their turns would come, and how they would react to the indignity of the Nazis.
   
   Quickly the family shipped their sisters and their husbands to Buenos Aires, while a brother and his wife went off America. Klara, decided she would go nowhere until she felt her parents were safe. As much as they begged her to leave and get on with her life, she would not leave them.
   
   After the death of her father, she took her mother to stay with her sister trusting in God for safely there. Luckily, she was booked through a Nazi friend on a ship heading for England. Klara falls in love with this country and goes to live with a family. As the urgency for money came, and the need for aloneness, she took up a job as a restaurant and moved into her own dwelling place.
   
   As time went by Klara visited her family in Argentina and America, but decided that her life was better in England, which she now called home. Back in England with her health ailing, she felt the need for seeing her country again and she packed up and returned to Germany taking a friend Mavis just for the visit. Nostalgia set in as they went touring the places that she remembered including her old home, and even visiting the house where her mother and aunt had been taken away.
   
   When she returned to England where her health was no better than before, but as the stalwart that she was she accepted her heart condition.
   
   I have just scaled over some of the facts but to go too indepth into this story would certainly be giving too much away. If you are interested in the history of Germany around this period, you would appreciate this book.
   Reviewed by Heather Marshall Negahdar (Sugar-Cane 10/11/07)

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