The Children of Lingfield House: Based on the true story of heartbreak and healing from the unimaginable...

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Titti Marrone

The Children of Lingfield House

Based on the true story of heartbreak and healing from the unimaginable horrors of World War...

Titti Marrone

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ECHO
01 December 2024

Fiction & Literature; Historical fiction; Fiction: special features

Discover this heartbreaking novel based on the powerful true story of the children of Lingfield House. An astonishing account of healing in the face of unimaginable horror.

In 1945, twenty-five child survivors of the Holocaust, between the ages of four and fifteen, were welcomed to Sir Benjamin Drage's large country villa, Lingfield House. There they would receive the care of psychoanalyst, Anna Freud, daughter of the great Sigmund, and Alice Goldberger, her trusted colleague.

Having endured childhood in the confines of the concentration camps, orphanages and hideouts where their parents left them during the war, each of the children has a unique and terrible story.

Alice and her team fight to give them back a childhood, teaching them how to trust again and even find happiness after unfathomable horror. Under their care, Lingfield House becomes a refuge and haven for the traumatised.

By: Titti Marrone
Imprint: ECHO
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 198mm, Width: 129mm, Spine: 17mm
Weight: 191g
ISBN: 9781786583222
ISBN 10: 1786583224
Pages: 272
Publication Date: 01 December 2024
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Titti Marrone is an award-winning Italian journalist and author whose literary works have been translated into multiple languages. She lives and works in Naples where she teaches history and languages of journalism at the Suor Orsola Benincasa University of Naples. For The Children of Lingfield House, published in Italian as Se solo il mio cuore fosse pietra, she won the Croce prize and the Napoli prize.