Mar 12 2009
Alison’s new book
Spotted today in Publisher’s Marketplace:
Alison Pick’s THURSDAY’S CHILD, a story about love, hope and betrayal within an affluent Jewish family in Prague during the lead-up to Hitler’s invasion of Czechoslovakia, to Lynn Henry of House of Anansi, in a pre-empt, by Anne McDermid Associates.
That’s my cousin! Check out her website in my links. I’ve read this novel and it is wonderful. There are many novels about the war and the Holocaust, but this one is very different, about a place and a moment that is seldom described. To me, she gets the feel of Czechoslovakia as it fell to Hitler absolutely perfectly and the story is gripping and beautifully written. Her publisher is going to be very happy they picked up this book.
Maybe I’ll do a blog interview of Alison when her book is released. Hmm. *plots*
yeah!!! I didnt know it was called Thursday’s Child.. I suppose the title is evident when you know the plot? Im so excited for her -and an interview would be great.
How super of you to write about this. It is so wonderful…
I am so happy for her.
Dear Alison
Bev and I are happy to know you and look forward to your new book coming to our favourite bookstore in bayfield – where you read from the Sweet Edge! Well done! Jane and Bev McKee (Davidson)
So you and your cousin do historical fiction? Figure the odds!
Congratulations to your cousin! So many writers in the family.
Yes, we Picks are super-extra-special.
Hey, you didn’t mention that your cousin wrote an article about drinking beer in your ancestral Pick-Czech land for Air Canada magazine. The things I have to discover on my own.
Alison is so full of awesomeness, no one cousin can possibly keep up with it all.
And you didnt tell me you were flying on Air Canada. Sheesh. Maybe you need a blog.
Flying? I subscribe!