Book release: Thistledown Seed by Louise Helfgott

Interweaving fiction and memoir in multiple threads, Thistledown Seed follows the displacement and violence of the Holocaust for a Polish family who subsequently settle in Western Australia. In this deeply moving account, Louise Helfgott explores another side of her family’s tragic past made famous in the Oscar-winning movie, Shine. The floating thistledown seed is like the diaspora of the Jewish people who were scattered around the world as a result of the Holocaust.

“Only a poet perhaps can extract such beauty from a tragedy so immense it will shape generations not yet even born. With Louise Helfgott’s spare, dramatic prose the impossible becomes possible." - Sara Dowse, author of Sapphires, Schemetime and As the Lonely Fly

“This beautifully written and deeply moving book weaves together three narratives tracing trauma down the generations." - Emeritus Associate Professor Gail Phillips on Thistledown Seed