Join us at St Vincent's Chapel to hear Jenni Daiches, in conversation with Dr Bashabi Fraser, discussing her new book, Somewhere Else.

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. 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.

Jenni Daiches’s Somewhere Else explores today’s most difficult and urgent questions, not least of which: how to find identity in displacement.

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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

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

‍HANNAH HOLTSCHNEIDER, UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH

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About Dr Bashabi Fraser

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Dr Bashabi Fraser, CBE is an award winning poet, children’s writer, editor, translator and academic.

Bashabi’s work traverses continents in bridge-building literary projects. She has authored and edited 23 books, published several articles and chapters, both academic and creative and as a poet, has been widely anthologised. She is the Chief Editor of the academic and creative peer-reviewed international e-journal, Gitanjali and Beyond and on the Editorial Board of RLF WritersMosaic.

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Order your copy of Somewhere Else and receive a free ticket to our event! Alternatively, use the ticket-only option for £5 (which can be used towards a purchase of the book at the event).

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