If you are looking for a book to read that is gritty and realistic, then don't read it. This book is almost like a fairy story in some ways. It is full of magic, symbolism and a hint of mysticism. I must admit, it took a little while to get into it. I figured out that the key to this book is to comp...
Actual rating 2.75Sydney, 1929: Three people find themselves washed up on the steps of Miss Du Maurier's bohemian boarding house, a once grand terrace in Newtown. Ari is a young Jewish man, a pogrom orphan, who lives under the stern rule of his rabbi uncle, but dreams his father is Houdini. Upon h...