The Sunday Times bestseller -An utterly engrossing book- Nigella Lawson -Remarkable and gripping- Edmund de Waal''A near-perfect study of Jewish identity in the 20th century - I don-t hesitate to call it a masterpiece- TelegraphAfter her grandmother died, Hadley Freeman travelled to her apartment to try and make sense of a woman she-d never really known. Sala Glass was a European expat in America - defiantly clinging to her French influences, famously reserved, fashionable to the end - yet to Hadley much of her life remained a mystery. Sala-s experience of surviving one of the most tumultuous periods in modern history was never spoken about.When Hadley found a shoebox filled with her grandmother-s treasured belongings, it started a decade-long quest to find out their haunting significance and to dig deep into the extraordinary lives of Sala and her three brothers. The search takes Hadley from Picasso-s archives in Paris to a secret room in a farmhouse in Auvergne to Long Island and to
