03/09/2026
You are all invited to our next Library event, on Thursday 17th September at 7pm. Come and have a glass of fizz and listen to the author, Alison Marshall, talk with Val our host for the evening, about her book Journeys of Hope: The Letters of Meyer and Sonia.
It's a powerful true story of migration, family, and survival.
The first-hand story of two people’s emigration journey, told through their original letters. Meyer Fortes and Sonia Donen grew up in a Jewish immigrant community in South Africa, where they met and fell in love. In 1927, Meyer set off, alone, to study in London. Sonia stayed behind in South Africa and they kept up a lively correspondence. Their letters chart their hopes, fears, disappointments and successes, as Meyer struggles to make a life for himself in London and prepare for Sonia’s arrival. The letters triggered a voyage of discovery by the author, travelling through eastern Europe and coming into contact with modern conflicts, the people living through them and those who became refugees.
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