Emma was a delightfully bright and intelligent woman; her husband was a professor of mathematics and astronomy. This story is the account of Crystal night as it affected her and her family.

Leonard Bell reviews the memoirs of Inge Woolf, ‘Resilience: A Story of Persecution, Escape, Survival and Triumph
. He describes it as, ‘A memory book of one woman's life is both family history and 'urgently topical'.

Clemerson’s novel benefits from her extensive research, contributing to its immediacy through telling details, bringing to life the Jewish calamity, the intergenerational effects and the refugee experience.