Almonds and Raisins

By Maisie Mosco

A powerful and uplifting saga of love, pride – and Jewish tradition struggling to survive a hostile world...

The families are as different as night and day. The outgoing Sandbergs are from Russia. The bookish Moritzes are from Austria. They meet in England before the First World War and form a strong, fiery friendship that would shape the destinies of three generations.
From Great War to Depression, from sweatshops to mansions, through times of love, faith, and betrayal they pour their sweat, blood and very lives into one golden dream: their beloved children, their everlasting future...

• Language: English
• Publisher: Classica Libris
• Release date: Nov 24, 2018
• ISBN: 9788829558193

Maisie Mosco

Maisie Mosco was born in Oldham in 1924, the eldest of three children. Her parents were of Latvian Jewish and Viennese Jewish descent, and both sides emigrated to England around 1900. She wanted to study medicine, but had to leave school at the age of 14 to help in the family business. She joined the ATS aged 18, and ended the war helping illiterate soldiers to read. After the war, she edited The Jewish Gazette, and wrote radio plays for the BBC. The author of sixteen novels, she died in London in 2011, aged 86.