Introduction to my new novel, The Deceptions (Allen & Unwin)

Moving from wartime Europe to modern day Australia, my new novel, The Deceptions, us a story of old transgressions, unexpected revelations and the legacy of lives built on lies and deceit.
In 1943, a young woman is taken to a Jewish ghetto outside Prague where one of the guards - a Czech gendarme - is quickly drawn to her. Believing he will offer her protection, she reluctantly accepts his advances only to find herself alone and abandoned in Auschwitz. Decades later, the gendarme carries his regrets to Sydney where he and his family try to make a new life for themselves. But theirs is a life built on lies and deception, and one that may completely unravel.
Inspired by a true story of wartime betrayal, The Deceptions is a tale of love and duplicity - and family secrets better left buried.