Heather Morris, author of the heart-breaking and unforgettable international best-seller: The Tattooist of Auschwitz, will be in Abingdon at 7pm on Wednesday 23rd October.
Heather will be in conversation with Lucy Adlington as she talks about her new novel, Cilka's Journey. This powerful sequel to the multi-million copy bestseller, The Tattooist of Auschwitz, has been described as “a touching and redemptive tale of love and selflessness”.
Heather will be in conversation with Lucy Adlington as she talks about her new novel, Cilka's Journey. This powerful sequel to the multi-million copy bestseller, The Tattooist of Auschwitz, has been described as “a touching and redemptive tale of love and selflessness”.
Mostly Books and Our Lady's Abingdon are excited to host the inspirational Heather Morris as part of her UK tour.Heather and Lucy will be discussing the book and will open the floor for questions. Both authors will be signing copies of their books after the event.
Tickets are £17.50 (including a copy of Cilka's Journey), or £7.50 (admission only with £2.50 redeemable against a purchase on the night). Both tickets include a drink on arrival. Click here to book your ticket.
The event will be taking place at Our Lady's Abingdon Senior School, Radley Road, Abingdon OX14 3PS.
Her beauty saved her life - and condemned her. In 1942 Cilka Klein is just sixteen years old when she is taken to Auschwitz-Birkenau Concentration Camp. The Commandant at Birkenau, Schwarzhuber, notices her long beautiful hair, and forces her separation from the other women prisoners.
Cilka learns quickly that power, even unwillingly given, equals survival. After liberation, Cilka is charged as a collaborator by the Russians and sent to a desolate, brutal prison camp in Siberia known as Vorkuta, inside the Arctic Circle. Innocent, imprisoned once again, Cilka faces challenges both new and horribly familiar, each day a battle for survival.
Cilka befriends a woman doctor, and learns to nurse the ill in the camp, struggling to care for them under unimaginable conditions. And when she tends to a man called Alexandr, Cilka finds that despite everything, there is room in her heart for love. Based on what is known of Cilka Klein's time in Auschwitz, and on the experience of women in Siberian prison camps, Cilka's Journey is the breathtaking sequel to The Tattooist of Auschwitz.
A powerful testament to the triumph of the human will, this novel will move you to tears, but it will also leave you astonished and uplifted by one woman's fierce determination to survive, against all odds.
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