Pavel and Anneliese Bauer are affluent, secular Jews, whose lives are turned upside down by the arrival of the German forces in Czechoslovakia. Desperate to avoid deportation, the Bauers flee to Prague with their six-year-old son, Pepik, and his beloved nanny, Marta. When the family try to flee without her to Paris, Marta betrays them to her Nazi boyfriend. But it is through Marta's determination that Pepik secures a place on a Kindertransport, though he never sees his parents or Marta again.
Inspired by Alison Pick's own grandparents who fled their native Czechoslovakia for Canada during the Second World War, FAR TO GO is a deeply personal and emotionally powerful novel.
Praise for the book:
'A potential classic in the making' - Financial Times
‘Masterly’ - The Times
'Pick’s compelling portrait of people struggling to comprehend the encroaching horror, while desperately attempting to keep to their normal routines, is intimate and strangely lovely. Resolutely compassionate, and unflinching honest. ' - Daily Mail
'…somewhere between a book and a miracle' - Catherine Ryan Hyde, author of LOVE IN THE PRESENT TENSE
“The writing in Far to Go is clean, crisp and unencumbered[...]It’s very deftly structured and the storytelling is seamless.' - Stephen Gallow, author of THE CELLIST OF SARAJEVO
