My Disappearing Uncle

A compulsive tangle of tales touching not only on lives, loves and the longing to belong, but also the brutality of war and injustice suffered again and yet again in Europe up to the present day. -- Katya Adler * BBC Europe Editor * An astonishing book, beautifully written. Echoes of a middle-European Forsyte Saga later colliding with the brutal realities of Nazism, and what came next. -- John Carr * author of Escape from the Ghetto * Kathy Henderson has a rare ability to draw us into her immediate family and then reverse the telescope to take in the cultural and political canvas imploding into world wars, Holocaust and diaspora Her writing is beautiful and captivating and we are carried along in her unfolding discoveries -- Frankie Armstrong * singer, author and activist * Kathy has peeled away the layers of her family history to reveal not only a fascinating narrative but the way in which chance encounters enrich our lives. -- Meriel Schindler * author of The Lost Caf Schindler * She fits these tales into a gripping historical narrative for her own better understanding of what occurred to allow us, her readers, a deeper insight into the complex history of central Europe through the 20th Century, its two world wars and beyond. -- Diana Quick * actor and writer * *'Henderson has that rare quality of being able to draw the reader into her world, offering them a rich and cultural experience along the way.' *- The Lady an evocative account of a childhood in a postwar London - Who Do You Think You Are?

Kathy Henderson is an award-winning childrens writer, poet and illustrator with more than 30 published books, winner among other things of the Kurt Maschler Award, the Aesop Prize of the American Folklore Society and shortlisted for the Childrens Poetry Prize. With a background in literature, music and oral history she also compiled 'My Song is My Own, 100 womens songs from the British Isles', which has become the iconic book on the hidden voices of women. She has written for radio, visited hundreds of schools and libraries and been a Fellow of the Royal Literary Fund.