ORDINARY WOMEN

“The story is unforgettable…the book refuses to be put down. The reader is compelled to read on – with anguish, fascination and admiration. This is an intensely moving and finely detailed book…” That is how eminent Australian author Thomas Shapcott described ‘Ordinary Women’. A family saga, it tells the story of 4 women who survive the Gestapo, who walk through the hell of Dresden during the infamous Allied fire-bombing. Mother and daughter become post-WWII emigrants to Australia. The cover is iconic, a metaphor for the contrast between bleeding war-torn Europe and the peace of a new land.