A Dress for Kathleen Format:Paperback There are nearly 70 million

There are nearly 70 million refugees on the planet today

which he taped to his wrists

the result of dozens of microphones hidden in the furniture and under the floor

Paris and Amsterdam

beauty and truth-telling

A Dress for Kathleen Format:Paperback There are nearly 70 millionEvery family has shadow people, the ones who slipped out of the story too soon, leaving a blank space where they should have been. In my fathers family that person was his sister Kathleen. So begins Heather Richardsons astonishing fragmentary celebration of her aunt, Kathleen Hutchinson, whose life was cut tragically short aged just 14. It is the early days of WW2 and Kathleen has just left school to start her first job at a linen mill. But this dark