Spanning seven decades, this memoir intricately weaves the author's experiences between Australia and Europe, highlighting her journey through activism and moments of seclusion. It offers a rich exploration of everyday life alongside the writing life, providing insights into personal growth and the diverse influences that shaped her identity.
"Heddy and Me" spans the twentieth century and some of its great war, the Holocaust, immigration. In telling her mother's story Susan Varga also tells her own. As a tiny baby she barely survived the Holocaust, in hiding in a Hungarian village with her sister and her mother, Heddy. Neither pain or the devastation of this time lessened Heddy's will to go on and recreate her life in Australia.
Die ungarische Jüdin Varga, 1943 in Budapest geboren, erzählt in Rückblenden vom Schicksal ihrer Mutter, ihrer Grossmutter und ihrem eigenen: Krieg, Verfolgung u. Holocaust, Emigration. Nur durch die Willenskraft der Mutter (der Vater stirbt in einem Arbeitslager) überlebt die Familie und beginnt 1948 einen Neuanfang in Australien.