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Girl In The Red Coat

Paperback / ISBN-13: 9780340819074

Price: £7.99

ON SALE: 7th July 2003

Genre: Health & Personal Development

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Roma Ligocka has lived multiple lives over the last fifty years – artist, theatrical designer, bohemian nomad, political activist, wife, mother – but she was first ‘the girl in the red coat’ . Famously picked out in red in the black and white footage of Spielberg’s ‘Schindler’s List’ it was only when she saw the image of herself on screen that she realised the extent of her failure to come to terms with the anguish of her childhood. This powerful memoir revisits the horror of her early years and reveals how far its effects have reached throughout her life. Leading an apparently successful life, she has nonetheless often been at the mercy of depressions. Now, after 50 years, she is able to write about honestly examining the scars of a traumatic childhood and getting past sorrow while still acknowledging the truth of the past.

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This poignant, well-told tale does honour to all children bewildered by horror and injustice and politics beyond their understanding or responsibility
Thomas Keneally, author of Schindler's Ark
An extraordinary child's-eye view of inhumanity and horror in the Krakow ghetto, and of the blessing and curse of survival
The Sunday Times
Incredibly moving, beautifully written, this is a shocking, necessary book
Marie Claire