Now a major TV adaptation from Sky Atlantic starring Harvey Keitel, Melanie Lynskey, Jonah Hauer-King, Anna Próchniak, and Jonas Nay
Born in New Zealand, Heather Morris is passionate about stories of survival, resilience and hope. In 2003, while working in a large public hospital in Melbourne, Heather was introduced to an elderly gentleman who 'might just have a story worth telling'. The day she met Lale Sokolov changed both their lives. Lale's story formed the basis for The Tattooist of Auschwitz and the follow-up novel, Cilka's Journey. In 2021 she published the phenomenal conclusion to the Tattooist trilogy, Three Sisters, after being asked to tell the story of three Holocaust survivors who knew Lale from their time in Auschwitz-Birkenau. Together, her novels have sold more than 18 million copies worldwide. Sisters Under the Rising Sun, a heart-wrenching novel based upon the experiences of women in Japanese POW camps, was published in 2023 to great acclaim. Heather's first contemporary novel, The Wish, will be published in September 2025.
a sincere...moving attempt to speak the unspeakable
*The Sunday Times*
What an extraordinary and important book this is. We need as many
memories of the Holocaust as we can retain, and this is a moving
and ultimately uplifting story of love, loyalties and friendship
amidst the horrors of war. I'm so glad Lale and Gita were
eventually able to live long and happy lives together, and thankful
that Heather Morris was moved to record their incredible story.
It's a triumph
*Jill Mansell*
Extraordinary - moving, confronting and uplifting . . . a story
about the extremes of human behaviour: calculated brutality
alongside impulsive and selfless acts of love. I recommend it
unreservedly'
*Graeme Simsion, author of The Rosie Project*
Based on the true story of Lale Sokolov, who is forced to tattoo
numbers on his fellow concentration camp detainees' arms.
*The Bookseller*
Nothing that I could possibly write here would be eloquent enough
to convey to you how powerful and moving this book was. I could go
on for pages telling you how well this is written, nothing is
overdramatized...she just tell this tale that is at its bare bones
a love story. I cried entire buckets of tears. Finally I will use
the words of Lale "If you wake up in the morning, it is a good day"
that it is. That it is
*Netgalley Reviewer*
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