I could not put this book down on a holiday in Cyprus in September 2000.

(I had ordered it specially for the holiday because of the story's slight links to Cyprus, but unfortunately my copy did not arrive in time. Instead I took a copy borrowed from a dear friend, whose mother is Jewish, and who was brought up in Germany in the early 1940s by a non-Jewish family, and was the only surviving member of her natural family)

Unfortunately, although I ordered my own copy as soon as we returned home from holiday, it has sat on the shelf waiting for me to re-read it, or for my husband to read it for the first time. Too many books, too little time ...

So I have enclosed it in the Tutti Frutti book box which arrived here today - hoping that someone will read it and enjoy it as much as I did.

I picked this out of the TF bookbox, added to my TBR plie....