Walter’s wise, thoughtful memoir is both deeply affecting and unexpectedly inspiring. A fascinating story of courage, doubt and defiance across three generations, it’s the perfect read for daunting times.

An eloquent, piercing, gloriously humane memoir on the wonders of life in the most difficult of moments. It touched me very much.

An important and beautiful memoir about how a daughter’s feelings for the loss of her beloved mother changes and evolves through grief… dark, painful but also illuminating and healing

Deeply passionate and humane… [a] compelling reconstruction of her mother’s life as a young anti-nuclear activist defying her suburban parents… Walter writes powerfully in the book’s conclusion about the current challenges facing refugees to the UK

Heartfelt and upfront… A grieving daughter rediscovers her mother’s political past

Truly fascinating… A powerful reminder that our actions really do matter

This is a potent book… Walter spreads it out before us with great tenderness, exquisite writing, clear eyes and an open heart

A book about sadness and memory and the attempts people make to come to terms with overwhelming pain… provides an interesting contrast between the feminist issues that ran through her mother’s life and those that have determined her own

In this succinct and deeply serious memoir, Natasha relives the days and weeks after her mother’s death… the book demonstrates fascinatingly is how children react against their parents

An examination, both glancing and gripping, of [her mother’s] life… Walter’s familiarity with the displaced and fearful makes her a gentle chronicler of the lives of her grandparents