A last chance to escape. A journey fraught with danger.

Based on true events. Vienna, 1938.

Newlywed Lilly is looking forward to the future with her husband until the Nazi annexation of Austria throws everything into uncertainty. Suddenly, their Jewish heritage turns them into outcasts, facing persecution and daily humiliation.

Despite their tireless efforts to emigrate, no country will grant them the visas they desperately need. Then Kristallnacht, the Night of Broken Glass, shatters Lilly’s world.

With the outbreak of war, Lilly remains trapped in Vienna, fearful of what lies ahead. Her cousin discovers a possible escape: joining a group of Jewish refugees on a daring journey down the Danube River and across the Black Sea to British-controlled Mandatory Palestine.

Leaving comes at a price, and though it may offer Lilly a second chance and new friendships, it will also test her resilience to the limit. With danger and difficulties at every turn, can Lilly and all the other refugees survive the journey and reach the Promised Land?‘Absorbing, engaging, with plenty of twists and turns, Sarah Ansbacher's novel incorporates groundbreaking new historical research she has unearthed into shocking forgotten episodes experienced during the war by the Jews.

’Tom Gross, former Jerusalem correspondent for the Telegraph, and contributor to the Wall St Journal and Guardian. .