In Out of the Ashes a modern matriarch takes over from her dead grandmother, determined to maintain the family loyalty and simple values she fears that the younger generation has lost. Still coming to terms with widowhood, Marianne, a successful author, has to balance the demands of her career against the age-old tradition impelling her to hold the family together, a task beset by contemporary influences her immigrant grandmother could not have envisaged. There is the tragedy that befalls her actor nephew, the havoc wreaked by a disturbed child, the seemingly insoluble problem eroding her son's marriage, and the far-reaching consequences of one of the family's marrying a German girl. Marianne's own life takes an unexpected turn when she meets a man whose love threatens her family involvement and her independence. Out of the Ashes, with its rich cast of characters, is a moving family saga of the eighties in which the shadow of neo-Nazism lives side...

Thirty years. A time of quiet celebration for Sarah and Abraham. Thirty years since their arrival, penniless, in Manchester. So much behind them. The years of struggle, sustained by the closeness of family, faith and inheritance, shot through by the joys of love, of children and grandchildren. It seemed right to reflect and celebrate. Except that now there was a growing, terrible reminder of that half-forgotten past. For the year was 1935, Hitler ruled in Germany and even in England the Fascists were marching. '... full of freshness and fascination' Manchester Evening News

A powerful and uplifting saga of love, pride – and Jewish tradition struggling to survive a hostile world... The families are as different as night and day. The outgoing Sandbergs are from Russia. The bookish Moritzes are from Austria. They meet in England before the First World War and form a strong, fiery friendship that would shape the destinies of three generations. From Great War to Depression, from sweatshops to mansions, through times of love, faith, and betrayal they pour their sweat, blood and very lives into one golden dream: their beloved children, their everlasting future...

Thirty years. A time of quiet celebration for Sarah and Abraham. Thirty years since their arrival, penniless, in Manchester. So much behind them. The years of struggle, sustained by the closeness of family, faith and inheritance, shot through by the joys of love, of children and grandchildren. It seemed right to reflect and celebrate. Except that now there was a growing, terrible reminder of that half-forgotten past. For the year was 1935, Hitler ruled in Germany and even in England the Fascists were marching. '... full of freshness and fascination' Manchester Evening News