Invisible Ink
A Family Memoir
by Martha Leigh
Troubador Publishing Ltd.
Matador
Biographies & Memoirs | History | Nonfiction (Adult)
Pub Date 16 Dec 2020
I am reviewing a copy of Invisible Ink through Troubador Publishing/Matador and Netgalley:
Martha’s parents were extraordinary people who lived during extraordinary times. Ralph was a brilliant but poor Jew who lived on the East End. Edith who was also Jewish and came from bourgeois family in Central Europe, was a gifted pianist. They had met as Students in Paris in 1937 and then became separated by the war. They wrote letters to one another during their separation letters that were intimate, emotional and sometimes humorous correspondence throughout the war led to marriage in 1945.
They both bore scars. She, from escaping the Nazis, he from childhood tragedy. Overshadowing them both was a secret that burdened Ralph for most of his life. After the war Ralph would become the world expert on Jean-Jacques Rousseau, while Edith devoted herself to her piano both performing and teaching.
Invisible Ink is an intimate look at Martha’s Parents relationship, and how it came to be.
The author not only uncovered her parents love story, in going through the pages of correspondence and other writings to create this book, she uncovered too her Uncle’s Heroism as well as his pioneering work in medicine, as well as her grandmother and cousin’s miraculous escapes from the holocaust.
Discovering the truth about her family has also allowed Martha too take an inner journey towards discovering who she is.
I give Invisible Ink five out of five stars!
Happy Reading!
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