The Suitcase

Absolutely compelling… It’s an extraordinary achievement. – Edmund de Waal, author of The Hare with Amber EyesIntimate, affecting, elegiac - a remarkable exploration in the hands of a special writer. – Philippe Sands, author of East West StreetFrances Stonor Saunders is one of those writers you read no matter what she writes. She is that good… this is family history at its best… the words fizz off the page and flutter in the mind… [The Suitcase] will haunt you. – James McConnachie * Sunday Times *[An] intimate and enquiring family history… Sympathetic, erudite, mournful – Matthew Janney * Financial Times *Stonor Saunders…has a magpie-eye for the telling detail… [and] a vivid turn of phrase. – Robbie Millen * The Times *Frances Stonor Saunders vividly captures the horror and absurdity of life in the theatre of conflict, and human versatility… The Suitcase is…a study in the meaningful artifice of human experience. – Katherine Backler * Tablet *Excellent… The Suitcase intrigues and fascinates and causes the reader to reflect on the uneven fates of those families that survived the Holocaust and those that did not. – Timothy W. Ryback * Literary Review *A beautifully written, beautifully composed investigation into her [Saunders’s] father’s origins, and also the idea of a border. It still haunts me. – Adam Thirwell * Times Literary Supplement, Books of the Year *

Frances Stonor Saunders is a writer, broadcaster and documentary-maker. She writes for the London Review of Books and Guardian, and is the former Arts Editor of the New Statesman. Her first book, Who Paid the Piper? The CIA and the Cultural Cold War, has been translated into twenty languages, and was awarded the Royal Historical Society’s William Gladstone Memorial Prize. She is also the author of Hawkwood and The Woman Who Shot Mussolini. She is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and lives in London.