A review by henrymarlene
There Was Still Love by Favel Parrett

4.0

This was a very short book to get through but it was very complex in emotion, memory and connections of twin sisters who are caring for grandchildren at opposite ends of the world. It was sad to read Ludek's yearning for his mother, and that he is a reason for his mother's inability to seek asylum Australia. And sad to read of the hardship in old Czechoslovakia that his grandparents live through. Equally you read about how Liska lives with her grandparents in Melbourne (meeting Ludek's mother) and how they raise her in this strange country, still not accepting of migrants. There were moments where I reminisced about my own grandparents, and walking through delis in Footscray with one of them when I was young. My memory was evoked as I read the memories of these characters.