Light at the End of the Day

Jozef is commissioned to paint a portrait of the younger daughter of Krakóws grand Oderfeldt family, but he has no wish to indulge a pampered child-princess or her haughty, condescending parents. When he is ushered by a servant into their house on Krakóws fashionable Bernadyńska street in the winter of 1937, he has no inkling of the way his life will become entangled with the Oderfeldts.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 416 pages
Publication date: 13 May 2021
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers

When Jozef is commissioned to paint a portrait of the younger daughter of Krakóws grand Oderfeldt family, it is not only his desperate need for money that drives him to accept. He has no desire to indulge a pampered child-princess or her haughty, condescending parents – and almost does not notice Alicias bookish older sister, Karolina. But when he is ushered by a servant into their house on Krakóws 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. As Poland is engulfed by war, and Jozefs 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. Spanning countries and decades, The Light at the End of the Day is a heart-breaking novel of exile, survival, and how we remember what is lost.

Weight: 290g
Dimension: 129 x 198 x 28 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9780008164157