Wonderful life

A delicate and moving story of strength and survival that turns on one of the most powerful forces in the known universe: a mother's love.' - Jonathan Freedland, author of The Escape Artist

A powerful and true story of a Holocaust survivor told by her daughter—a tale that reminds us of the resilience of the spirit and the healing power of the heart.

Born in Czechoslovakia, Mira was just 12 when World War II broke out and 17 when the Nazis finally caught up with her. Torn away from her family, she went on to survive four concentration camps, including Auschwitz, and a death march when she was too weak to walk. She lived when almost everyone she knew did not.

At the age of 88, Myra, living in Australia, is diagnosed with cancer, and her daughter, a journalist, decides to interview her to distract her from her illness. As Myra testifies, Rachel realizes how Myra's unique perspective—seeing her experiences through the lens of the kindness of the people who helped her—protected her from the depths of humanity's cruelty and enabled her to go on to live a full and remarkable life. Rachel also put together the pieces of her own life as a child survivor. She realizes that however different their lives may be, she and her mother are uniquely united by a fierce inner strength to live, and a mystery of the strange things that always seem to happen around them. A beautiful story of love, loss, wonder, and the deepest kind of trust in life, *A Wonderful Life* questions the role played by fate, chance, and destiny. It is a tribute to family, a story of astonishing resilience, and a record of the profound bond between mother and child that not even death can destroy.