Product description from amazon.co.uk:

Longlisted for the 2011 MAN BOOKER PRIZE for Fiction, FAR TO GO is a powerful and profoundly moving story about one family's epic journey to flee the Nazi occupation of their homeland in 1939, and above all to save the life of a six-year-old boy.
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 harrowing novel.

Now on the way to ApoloniaX for the wishlist tag game. I had to use surface mail, so the book will take a few months to arrive. Hope you enjoy it when it does reach you!

This arrived today. Thanks for tagging me, klaradyn!

Brilliant. Another Booker nomination that deserves its place on the list. A compelling story, with a great structure, well researched, moving, thought-provoking. Very recommendable!
As far as I know there aren't many novels about the Kindertransporte, I have only read one other book, Liverpool Street by Anne C. Voorhoeve, directed at young adult readers.
Regarding non-fiction I recommend Deborah Oppenheimer's Into the Arms of Strangers.
Photo: Kindertransport sculpture by Frank Meisler at Liverpool Street Station, London

I tagged keeta1 with this book.
Travelling to New Zealand now.

Thank you so much Apoloniax, the book is here already and looks great. Hopefully it won't take me a year to get to it!
Hi Klaradyn :)

I really enjoyed this book. It's hard to imagine how difficult it must have been for parents to place their very young children on those trains and basically hope for the best! Very sad.

Picked from collectorkerri's First Sentences VBB - Round 7.
Hope you enjoy it as much as I did :)

Promptly and safely arrived thanks. This looks a very interesting book.

Released onto the bookshelf in the bar at the front of this lovely little hotel.