The Bookshop of the Broken Hearted

• A compelling and heartbreaking tale of grief and memory set in a small Victorian town in the 1960s from award-winning author Robert Hillman • Tom Hope is a young farmer whose wife Trudy walks out on him, taking her young son and leaving Tom heartbroken. But then Tom meets Hannah Babel, a Hungarian migrant and small-town bookseller. Hannah is a survivor of World War II, a widow twice over and still in deep mourning for her young son, who died in Auschwitz. Can Tom and Hannah overcome their own experiences of losing a child, or is Tom taking on a battle with heartbreak he can barely even begin to imagine? • In an Australia undergoing both political and social change, Hannah brings the darkness and light of Europe to rural Victoria • Robert Hillman has previously written the life stories of a half-dozen Jewish survivors of the European War and has drawn on the knowledge he had gained in interviews and research to create the character of Hannah • The Bookshop of the Brokenhearted is about loss and longing—a love story that merges European and Australian sensibilities • For readers of Joan London and Richard Russo