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‘Jenni Daiches has astonishingly re-created a lost world... I wept and laughed and wished I had written it.’

Miriam Margolyes

Rosa Roshkin is five years old when her family are murdered in a pogrom and she is forced to leave behind everything she knows with only a suitcase of clothes and her father’s violin.

Somewhere Else is an epic generational novel about womanhood and Judaeo-Scottish experience across two World Wars, the creation of Israel and the fall of the Berlin Wall. A novel which explores today’s most difficult and urgent questions, not least of which: how to find identity in displacement.

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September 2024
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9781910895955
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360

Somewhere Else

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‘Jenni Daiches has astonishingly re-created a lost world... I wept and laughed and wished I had written it.’

Miriam Margolyes

Rosa Roshkin is five years old when her family are murdered in a pogrom and she is forced to leave behind everything she knows with only a suitcase of clothes and her father’s violin.

Somewhere Else is an epic generational novel about womanhood and Judaeo-Scottish experience across two World Wars, the creation of Israel and the fall of the Berlin Wall. A novel which explores today’s most difficult and urgent questions, not least of which: how to find identity in displacement.

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This poignant, sparely-written novel starts in a European past of pogroms, dispossession and cruelty, but it creeps cunningly into our ugly present-day. Jenni Daiches has astonishingly re-created a lost world, the story of so many who came from somewhere else and tried to make a life. The shadows she brings unerringly to life are the tale of my own paternal family. I wept and laughed and wished I had written it.

Miriam Margolyes

An urgent exploration of the fragility and beauty of our shared humanity, here and elsewhere.

Hannah Holtschneider, University of Edinburgh

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Jenni Daiches (Calder) was born in the USA and has lived in Scotland since 1971. She is the author of three previous novels and two collections of poetry. As Jenni Calder, she has published biography and literary and social history. She is a previous president and current trustee of Scottish PEN.‍‍
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