A review by victoriayates
A Small Person Far Away by Judith Kerr

3.0

I wanted to enjoy this final part of the trilogy so much more than I did, but oh it's so melancholy. Whilst the first two books have a lightness to them in their descriptions of the Kerr family's travels from pre-war nazi Germany through Europe, and then wartime London, this installment focuses on one week in Anna's life in the 1950s. Its about mother-daughter relationships, survival and despair, loss of hope and suicide, its insightful, well-written but so bleak.